Intermezzo is perfect - truly wonderful - a tender, funny page-turner about the derangements of grief, and Rooney's richest treatment yet of messy romantic entanglements . Is there a better novelist at work right now? -- Anthony Cummins - Observer

Her most mature and moving book to date . By the final pages my eyes were red and swollen. I read it in a state of rapture. -- Johanna Thomas-Corr - Sunday Times

Rooney has discovered her full literary prowess . [I] felt that for the time spent reading Intermezzo, I had gone more deeply into the world . Sublime literature will do that for you. -- Jo Hamya - Independent

If a perfect Sally Rooney novel exists, this might just be it . Her best novel yet. - Evening Standard

Rooney's best book yet . A complex, dark and philosophical read. It's a marvel. - iNews

Reading her piercing descriptions of passion, heartache, drunkenness or rage, you stop and wonder, how did she know that? - The Economist

Really impressive and thoroughly enjoyable. I even, as with Conversations With Friends, had a little weep at the end. -- Rick O'Shea - Irish Independent

A breathtakingly intimate look at love and desire in its many different forms as Rooney delves deep into her characters to reveal what's really in their hearts. - Red

This is a writer pushing herself to test and explore both her characters and her art . This so-called 'voice of a generation' is in it for the long haul. As are we. - Marie Claire

Her best yet. There's more introspection here, more vulnerability from the characters, and this allows a greater connection. - Good Housekeeping

Rooney's no longer just the mouthpiece on twenty-something romantic angst. She's so much more. - Harper's Bazaar

With watchmaker precision, Rooney tweezers open the workings of a lattice of intimate relations and gives a precise reading - astringent and empathetic at the same time - of the minutely-changing atmospherics in a number of living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms. -- Jesse Armstrong - New Statesman

Intermezzo is that rare thing: a deeply serious and intellectually ambitious novel that's also a popular hit. Centred on two grieving brothers - Peter, a human rights lawyer, and Ivan, a chess prodigy - and the women in their orbit, Rooney's fourth novel explores the near-constant tension between our private and public selves with a piercing brilliance. - Financial Times

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.