Normal People

Can Two People Know Each Other Too Well?

Sally Rooney's Normal People is the novel that captivated a generation. Tender, precise, and achingly real, it follows Connell and Marianne — two people from the same small Irish town whose lives keep pulling them together and apart across the years of their youth.

At school, Connell is popular and well-liked; Marianne is isolated and misunderstood. But between them exists a connection neither can quite name or let go of. As they move through university in Dublin, their relationship shifts and deepens in ways that are by turns joyful, painful, and profoundly intimate.

Rooney writes with extraordinary clarity about desire, class, power, and what it means to truly be known by another person. Normal People is a love story — but one that refuses to be simple.

Why Readers Can't Put It Down

• Winner of the Costa Novel Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year
• Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
• Adapted into a critically acclaimed Hulu/BBC series
• A modern classic of contemporary literary fiction

Book Details

• Author: Sally Rooney
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• ISBN: 9780571334650
• Weight: 240g
• Format: Paperback