What's the verdict on Sally Rooney's new novel Intermezzo?

Many people have been awaiting the release of Intermezzo, the latest book by Irish writer Sally Rooney, which explores love, grief, growing up, playing chess, understanding and misunderstanding family...Kate and Cassie begin the show with this one, with additional input from millennial author Madeleine Gray. Also, under the sea with Richard Powers in his new novel Playground; and searching the American South with Gayl Jones in The Unicorn Woman, with guidance from historian Ethan Blue. BOOKS Sally Rooney, Intermezzo, Faber Richard Powers, Playground, Hutchinson Heinemann Gayl Jones, The Unicorn Woman, Virago GUESTS Madeleine Gray, critic and writer whose debut novel, Green Dot, was published in 2023 and is now being adapted for screen. Winner of the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year at the 2024 ABIAs Ethan Blue, Associate Professor of History at the University of W.A., where he specialises in histories of punishment, migration and incarceration. Author of The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-deportation-express/hardcover OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men Miriam Toews, Women Talking Julia Langbein, American Mermaid Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body Neil Stephenson, Termination Shock Eleanor Catton. Birnam Wood Zora Neal Hurston, There Eyes are Watching God Langston Hughes, works W.E.B. Du Bois, works Richard Wright, works Ella Baxter, Woo Woo Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet Percival Everett, James Ivan Chaar Lopez, The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Lands Frederick Jamieson, The Political Unconscious Margaret Drabble, works Thomas Hardy, works CREDITS CREDITS Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer: Harvey O'Sullivan, Simon Branthwaite Executive producer: Rhiannon Brown

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