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Product Details
Condition: New
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780571334650
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Age Range: Adult (16+)
Overview
Normal People by Sally Rooney is the multi-million-copy bestselling novel that inspired the award-winning BBC and Hulu television adaptation. This brand-new paperback edition follows Connell and Marianne, two young people from the same small town in the west of Ireland whose lives keep circling back to one another through school, university and early adulthood. Tender, sharp and quietly devastating, it is a coming-of-age love story about class, intimacy and the ways people shape each other - a modern classic and essential reading for contemporary fiction lovers.
About the Book
Set between a small town in rural Ireland and the student world of Trinity College Dublin, Normal People traces the on-again, off-again relationship of two unforgettable characters. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, shadowed only by his family's modest means; Marianne is affluent, clever and isolated, an outsider among her peers. When they strike up an awkward but electrifying conversation, something life-changing begins. Over the following years they drift together and apart, circling one another through misunderstanding, desire, ambition and self-doubt. Sally Rooney writes with remarkable precision about the small details that define intimacy, capturing the quiet power imbalances, the things left unsaid, and the tenderness beneath them. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Costa Novel Award in 2018, Normal People has been hailed as the literary phenomenon of the decade and the book that defined a generation. Its stripped-back yet deeply resonant prose makes it ideal for book clubs, students of contemporary literature and any reader who loves character-driven fiction about love, class and belonging.
Key Benefits
- Multi-million-copy bestseller and winner of the Costa Novel Award 2018 - a widely loved modern classic.
- Inspired the award-winning BBC/Hulu TV adaptation starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal.
- Emotionally intelligent, character-driven storytelling for fans of literary and contemporary romance.
- An ideal book club pick that sparks discussion about love, class, intimacy and identity.
- Brand-new UK paperback - lightweight and easy to carry, lend or give as a gift.
About the Author
Sally Rooney was born in the west of Ireland in 1991 and is one of the most celebrated novelists of her generation. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta and The London Review of Books, and she won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2017. She is the author of Conversations with Friends, Normal People, Beautiful World, Where Are You and Intermezzo, and once edited the Irish literary journal The Stinging Fly. Praised for her precise, emotionally intelligent style, Rooney is a defining voice in contemporary fiction.
Why You'll Love This Novel
If you love intelligent, character-driven romance and stories that feel true to real life, Normal People is simply unmissable reading. It is intimate, honest and beautifully written: a modern classic that rewards re-reading and sparks great conversation, making it a perfect gift or a treasured addition to your own home bookshelf.
Please Note: This is the UK edition (ISBN 9780571334650). Cover may vary from the image shown. Dispatched promptly from the UK, brand new.
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