Intermezzo
by Sally Rooney; audiobook read by Éanna Hardwicke (Faber & Faber, 2025)
Damaged protagonists, minimal plot. Rooney alternates between viewpoints, earmarking a few moral quandaries but mostly just letting the characters follow their thoughts, nosing unfiltered towards self-diagnoses and eventual catharsis. The result is immersive but not especially mind-blowing, for all the literary trappings.