"Costa Novel Award Winner 2018"
Featured on Episode 3 of the LoveReading Podcast
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Win a Copy of The Sisters of Hope Square by Faith Hogan and a Bucket List Scratch Book
Closing date: 04/07/2026
Costa Novel Award Winner 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.
Normal People features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Book Club Recommendations, Audiobooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations, Romance / Relationship Stories
Normal People is available in Paperback, Ebook, Hardback, Audiobook
Normal People was written by Sally Rooney and published by Faber & Faber
Normal People has 304 pages