Regular Folks actor to relate Sally Rooney’s subsequent noveltheinsiderinsight

Regular Folks’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 present to behave, so it’s a privilege to get to share within the Intermezzo story,” Hardwicke stated, in response to 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 Associates, Regular Folks (2018) and Stunning World, The place Are You (2021).

Breaking the format of its predecessors, the brand new e book will observe two brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek, and their very alternative ways of coping with the demise of their father.

“Sally has a wonderful manner of bringing us into her character’s hearts and minds,” Hardwicke added. “Regular Folks, like so many others, performed an enormous 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 giggle, make you cry and – hopefully – see the world slightly extra vividly afterward.”

Regular Folks 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 Collection 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.

“Via the elements 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 instructed People in an announcement.

“Intermezzo is an astonishing novel: it marks yet one more advance within the work of a author who captures our life and our occasions 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.

Nonetheless, he struggles with grief and self-medicates whereas struggling to handle relationships with two very completely different ladies.

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 lady known as Margaret who’s rising from a turbulent previous and their lives change into quickly and intensely intertwined.

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