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Normal People

Sally Rooney

Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can’t.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571334650
Date Published
02.05.2019
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Summary

‘The literary phenomenon of the decade.’ Guardian 

‘The best young novelist – indeed one of the best novelists – I’ve read in years.’ Olivia Laing

‘Superb . . . a tremendous read, full of insight and sweetness.’ Anne Enright

‘One the best novels I have read in years.’ Sheila Heti

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation – awkward but electrifying – something life-changing begins.

Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can’t.

A special Faber Members Edition of Normal People is also available.

Critic Reviews

Rooney’s second novel is one you read in three days flat, a Tube stop-missing, escalator-reading tale . . . Rooney’s style is pure poetry, sparse and heartbreaking, and writing this three months after I finished it I find my chest still aches for the pair of them.

Evening Standard Books of the Year
Critic Reviews

Rooney has given us a spellbinding twenty-first-century love story, and asserted herself as one of the major young writers in the English-speaking world.

TLS
Critic Reviews

Love, sex, class, work, miscommunication and melancholy are all described in prose that is somehow at once lapidary and mysterious; glittering but with the feeling of something moving like weather behind the sentences.

New Statesman Books of the Year
Critic Reviews

Effortlessly brilliant . . . tender and devastating.

Guardian Books of the Year
Critic Reviews

A future classic.

Guardian
Critic Reviews

Quite astonishing.

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Sally Rooney is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends, Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You. She was the winner of the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award in 2017. Normal People (‘the literary phenomenon of the decade’, Guardian) was the Waterstones Book of the Year 2019, won the Costa Novel of the Year 2018…

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