The release date for the English version of 'Normal People' by
Sally Rooney is Apr 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Connell and Marianne act as if they don't know one other in school. She is lonely, prideful, and fiercely private, whereas he is well-liked, well-adjusted, and the star of the school football team. However, a peculiar and lasting bond forms between the two youngsters that they are anxious to keep hidden when Connell arrives to pick up his mother from her cleaning job at Marianne's home.
They are both enrolled in classes at Dublin's Trinity College a year later. While Connell hovers about the periphery, bashful and unsure, Marianne has made her way in a new social environment. Over the course of their time in college, Marianne and Connell keep coming back to one other despite their constant, powerful attraction to one another. Then, when he starts looking for purpose elsewhere and she starts to descend into self-destruction, they each have to decide how far they will go to rescue one other.
Sally Rooney's narrative deftly examines the complexities of friendship and family, the energy of first love, and the intricacies of class. She does it with her beautifully minimalist style and amazing psychological acumen.