Alice, a writer, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he would like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen gets over a breakup and flirts again with Simon, a man she's known since childhood.
Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young – but life is catching up with them. They want each other, deceive each other, get together, break up. They are having sex, they are worried about sex, they are occupied with their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before darkness and witnessing something? Will they find a way to believe in a wonderful world?
"The book moved me to tears on more than one occasion... This is the best novel Rooney has written so far."
James Marriott, The Times (UK)
"Even more poignant than Normal People or Talking With Friends ... Wonderful World, Where Are You is still very dialectical and Marxist and engages in political debates. Yet this is also a love letter to the novel as an art form – and, also, to the ways in which human beings relate to one another ... Wonderful World, Where Are You is a love letter to all of us, in all the ways that we love."
Constance Grady, Vox