Sally Rooney is a divisive figure. It’s easy to put down her work as self-involved millennial bullshit. It’s equally easy to paint her detractors as oblivious neoliths. Still, I feel that the most common criticism levelled at her work is also precisely the point.  Beautiful World, Where Are You is about Alice and Eileen, two thirty-ish university friends who lead very different lives. Alice is a successful novelist; she has published two books and travels the world doing interviews. Eileen, intelligent and once promising, works […]