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How Sally Rooney came to be dubbed the ‘voice of a generation’

By Ellen Wiles, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Exeter

Sally Rooney’s new novel, Intermezzo, is finally here – and nearly everyone I know seems to be reading it. It’s almost like the pre-streaming days, when everyone would settle on the sofa at the same time to watch the new hit TV series. The sense that we were all part of the same unfolding experience of a story was part of the joy.

Not many authors can achieve that in this era of the digital kaleidoscope, when myriad…

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