Beautiful World, Where Are You, set to be released on 7 September, follows four young people as they navigate love, friendship and sex

Sally Rooney’s third novel, and her first since the widely acclaimed Normal People, will be published on 7 September.

Beautiful World, Where Are You, announced by Rooney’s UK publisher Faber on Tuesday, follows Alice and Eileen, two friends in their twenties who find themselves on very different trajectories. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse and asks him to go to Rome with her; Eileen, recovering from a break-up in Dublin, begins to flirt with Simon, a childhood friend.

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