Normal People

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Sally Rooney was born in County Mayo, Ireland, and presently lives in Dublin. She is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends and Normal People. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The London Review of Books, and elsewhere. Conversations With Friends was shortlisted for both the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. Rooney was also shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for 'Mr. Salary' and was the winner of the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award. Normal People won the Costa Novel of the Year in 2019. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018 as well as the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2019.

***PRE-ORDER BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU NOW*** '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. READ THE BOOK OF THE HIT TV SERIES: THE BBC ADAPTATION OF NORMAL PEOPLE IS NOW AVAILABLE ON BBC IPLAYER AND BBC 1

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