Photography Jonny Davies, via FaberLife & Culture / NewsLife & Culture / NewsView the cover for Sally Rooney’s new novel, Beautiful World, Where Are YouThe author’s third book is set to release in September, with an illustrated cover from Jon Gray and Manshen LoShareLink copied ✔️April 13, 2021April 13, 2021TextThom Waite If you’re a Normal People fan, chances are you’re well aware that a new Sally Rooney novel is on the way, set to hit bookshelves on September 7 this year. In more good news, the cover for the upcoming book — titled Beautiful World, Where Are You — has now been unveiled by Faber. Designed by Jon Gray, with illustrations by Manshen Lo, the cover maintains the aesthetic appeal of Normal People and Conversations With Friends before it — which is a relief, since it’s bound to be filling our Instagram feeds for the latter half of the year. The novel itself is billed as “a book of friendship and sex, art and faith, power and love”. More specifically, it revolves around two best friends in their late 20s, Alice and Eileen, who find themselves living very different lives. While novelist Alice is jetting off to Rome with a man she’s met, named Felix, Eileen is going through a break-up in Dublin, and flirting with a childhood friend, Simon. Due to the distance, much of Alice and Eileen’s friendship plays out over email. “Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young," reads a description from Faber. "But life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?” “This book is a brilliant exploration of the intertwined lives of four characters,” Jon Gray adds, speaking to Entertainment Weekly about the newly-revealed design. “I wanted it to feel like you were catching glimpses of them through clouds like melted holes in the cover revealing the characters inside.” “Manshen Lo’s work has exactly the right tone. It’s cool and distant, but also has enough personality and detail in it to make it feel somehow very human and domestic.” Beautiful World, Where Are You follows the release of Normal People in 2018, and Conversations With Friends the year before. Rooney has also written a wildly successful TV adaptation of the former — starring Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones — with an adaptation of Conversations With Friends on the way, starring Dazed cover star and The Miseducation of Cameron Post actor Sasha Lane, Girls’ Jemima Kirke, and more. Take a look at the cover for Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You below. 📢 Cover reveal 📢Finally, the Beautiful World, Where Are You cover is unveiled!#BWWAYhttps://t.co/RUt72I6JSJpic.twitter.com/T0zna2pESx— Faber Books (@FaberBooks) April 13, 2021Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREHow will the energy crisis impact you? Here’s everything you need to know‘You're better than this’: Why young men are quitting porn in drovesOnMeet the creatives turning up the heat in Lagos with Burna Boy and OnAI-Sexual: How is AI expanding our understanding of sexuality?This new novel injects queerness into Ireland’s hyper-masculine ganglands PenfoldsTroye Sivan invites us to his Paris Fashion Week launch eventBig Tech trial: Why the verdict against Meta and Youtube is so important This genre-bending trans novel holds a dark mirror to realityWhy are so many women acting like babies online?We asked young Americans how they’re getting offlineFunmaxxing: Should we all be playing more?7 easter eggs hidden in the World Cup 2026 away kitsEscape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy