Touched By Its Intimacy

A sharply observed portrait of an on-off romance has the makings of a classic.

- Kiran Dass

A startlingly eloquent study of the murky intricacies of emotional and sexual relationships, Sally Rooney’s second novel, Normal People, accelerated straight into the Man Booker Prize longlist immediately upon publication, and the BBC is already producing a television adaptation. It’s a book that you need to read. Right now.

It charts the intense intellectual and emotional relationship between Marianne and Connell, a young Galway couple from strikingly different backgrounds, over four years, beginning in their final year at high school and ending during their final year at Dublin’s Trinity College.