Normal People
By Sally Rooney
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Normal People (2018) is a novel by Irish writer Sally Rooney about two young people from a small town in the west of Ireland. Connell, a popular student whose mother cleans houses, and Marianne, a clever, isolated girl from a wealthy family, begin a secret relationship in their last year of school. Over the following years at Trinity College Dublin, they drift together and apart, as class, family and their own insecurities shape their bond.