“Sometimes I just have a feeling. Like a sense of being loved by God, almost… Like when I’m with you.”
Intermezzo, the fourth book by Sally Rooney – the caustic kingpin of millennial fiction – has sailed with elegant inevitability to the top of the bestseller list. Yet fans of Rooney’s poker-faced poised style may be surprised to realise that while her previous works flirted with faith, her new novel is unabashedly religious.
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