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WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2018 WINNER OF THE BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS
WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2019
WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2019
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2019
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.
'I finished the book determined to look at the world differently. I'm not...
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WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2018 WINNER OF THE BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS
WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2019
WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2019
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2019
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.
'I finished the book determined to look at the world differently. I'm not sure what higher compliment you can pay a novel.'
'The best young novelist - indeed one of the best novelists - I've read in years.'
Olivia Laing, New Statesman
'Rooney has given us a spellbinding twenty-first-century love story, and asserted herself as one of the major young writers in the English-speaking world.'
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