In Sally Rooney's writing, I was told, nothing tremendously consequential ever happens; it is all inside your head. I had no idea of what that meant though, until I read through Intermezzo , her latest. And this reading was a revelation of what effect prose can yield, and how, under the will and craft of a maestro, it can bend and transform into a device which is quite novel. The book starts with conversations about a funeral, and this death of a father shadows the entirety o