Normal People

The number one Sunday Times bestseller, winner of British Book Awards 2019: Fiction Book of the Year and Book of the Year, winner of the Costa Novel Award 2018, winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, winner of the Specsavers National Book Awards International Author of the Year, Waterstones' Book of the Year 2018, long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2018! - Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us - blazingly - about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Rooney's second novel breathes fiction with new life.