Sally Rooney’s fourth book has hit shelves to rave reviews.
Fans have queued, pre-ordered and raced to get their hands on Intermezzo.
But don’t expect an adaptation of her new novel.
Or any other Sally Rooney novels for a while at least.
Despite the world wide phenomenon of the Normal People TV show, the Conversations with Friends series was met to lukewarm reviews.
And Sally Rooney herself has confirmed that she’s taking a step back from adaptations for a minute.
Speaking to the New York Times she confessed that she “felt [the TV] world was not where I belonged”.
“The experience of working on [Normal People] had been, in so many ways, amazing — the team of people involved in it,” she said.
“But it did also feel like a really big job. Then, when the show was broadcast, that felt like a lot in terms of the amount of discourse that it generated and the amount of media attention. I felt like, OK, now I know that my books are where I belong, and that’s all that I want to be doing.”
She went on to say that she has “decided not to accept any offers to option the rights” for her third book, Beautiful World, Where Are You?.
“I felt like it was just time to take a break from that and let the book be its own thing for a while,” she explained.
Sally Rooney’s fourth novel, Intermezzo, is out now
