Normal People

Author(s): Sally Rooney

General Fiction

A universal story of love, friendship, and growing up. At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers-one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship. " Rooney] has been hailed as the first great millennial novelist for her stories of love and late capitalism... she writes] some of the best dialogue I've read."--The New Yorker  

MATILDA BOOKSHOP REVIEW


In spare, uncluttered prose that sings off the page, Rooney navigates the shifting nature of love, obsession, friendship, desire and estrangement between two friends over a couple of decades. Childhood mates, secret high school lovers, Marianne and Connell's long standing relationship is that of normal people: sometimes at odds; often extraordinary. Tender, vicious, heartbreaking all at once. I LOVE this! Molly


Product Information

   

   

Sally Rooney delves deep into the ugly realities of navigating youth with a style that makes you feel as though you are amongst friends. Easy to read and hard to put down, a perfect summer beach read. Alex-Book Grocer   

General Fields

  • : 9780571334650
  • : Faber
  • : Faber Paperback
  • : 0.242
  • : March 2019
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : very good
  • : 823/.92
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Sally Rooney