Regular Individuals actor to relate Sally Rooney’s subsequent novel

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Regular Individuals’s Éanna Hardwicke will narrate the audio model of Sally Rooney’s forthcoming novel, Intermezzo.

Hardwicke, 27, performed Rob Hegarty within the Emmy-nominated TV adaptation of the Irish creator’s best-selling novel alongside Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones.

“Her writing was an actual reward to behave, so it’s a privilege to get to share within the Intermezzo story,” Hardwicke mentioned, in accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, “and to try to seize Sally’s inimitable voice.”

Intermezzo will land as Rooney’s fourth e-book, following 2017’s Conversations with Buddies, Regular Individuals (2018) and Stunning World, The place Are You (2021).

Breaking the format of its predecessors, the brand new e-book will comply with two brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek, and their very other ways of coping with the dying of their father.

“Sally has a stupendous approach of bringing us into her character’s hearts and minds,” Hardwicke added. “Regular Individuals, like so many others, performed a giant half in my life, and I’ve been moved and transported by every of Sally’s great novels. They do what nice tales do: make you snigger, make you cry and – hopefully – see the world somewhat extra vividly afterward.”

Regular Individuals starred Mescal and Edgar-Jones as leads Connell and Marianne as they drift out and in of one another’s romantic lives all through younger maturity.

Mescal’s portrayal earned him an Emmy nomination for Lead Actor in a Restricted Anthology Sequence or Film on the 2020 ceremony.

Final month, Faber unveiled the Intermezzo cowl, which reveals a small man standing between a bigger man’s legs subsequent to a fallen chess piece, on X/Twitter.

“By the parts of on a regular basis life, Sally Rooney builds a world of moral complexity that matches that of the nice Nineteenth-century novels,” publishers Farrar, Straus and Giroux President informed Individuals in a press release.

“Intermezzo is an astonishing novel: it marks yet one more advance within the work of a author who captures our life and our instances with extra stylistic elan and generosity of spirit than ever.”

Peter, one of many protagonists in Rooney’s newest novel, is a lawyer in his thirties who’s profitable, assured and apparently unassailable.

Nevertheless, he struggles with grief and self-medicates whereas struggling to handle relationships with two very totally different girls.

His relationship along with his past love Sylvia is enduring, however Naomi, a university pupil, feels life is one lengthy joke.

In the meantime, Ivan, Peter’s 22-year-old brother, is a aggressive chess participant. He sees himself as socially awkward, a loner and the other of his elder brother. He meets an older girl known as Margaret who’s rising from a turbulent previous and their lives grow to be quickly and intensely intertwined.

The print version and audiobook of Intermezzo are each scheduled to be launched on September 24.