About the Author

Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin, where she graduated from Trinity College. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The White Review, The Stinging Fly, and the Winter Pages anthology.

Copyright

First published in the UK in 2017

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Document Outline

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Epigraph
• Contents
• PART ONE
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  • 2
  • 3
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• PART TWO
  • 18
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  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
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• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Copyright