From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, ...

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, ...

Intermezzo is het verhaal van twee broers, Peter en Ivan Koubek, die proberen om te gaan met de dood van hun vader. Peter, begin dertig, is een linkse advocaat in Dublin. Hij worstelt met zijn steeds chaotischer wordende privéleven. Ivan, tien jaar jonger, is een bedachtzame schaak-speler en, in zijn opinie, het tegenovergestelde van zijn charismatische broer.

Tijdens een schaakevenement in een kleine stad ontmoet Ivan de zesendertigjarige Margaret, die haar recente echtscheiding probeert t...