TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rooney, Sally
TI  - Intermezzo
SN  - 9780571365470
AV  - PR6118.O59  I58 2024
PY  - 2024///
CY  - London
PB  - Typeset by Faber, 
KW  - Brothers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Chess players
KW  - Lawyers
KW  - Grief
KW  - Love
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Families
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Psychological fiction
N2  - Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking
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