7/8/2023 0 Comments Normal people book reviewFor most of the four year period, Connell and Marianne are barely friends, let alone lovers, and they never seem to actually like each other all that much. It’s basically the folie à deux of young love in novel form, but let me be clear: it’s not a romance novel. It’s definitely a character-driven novel there’s not much of a plot to summarise here, beyond saying that Normal People depicts four years of Connell and Marianne’s relationship, the ebbs and tides as they graduate high-school and attend Trinity College in Dublin. People know that Marianne lives in the white mansion with the driveway and that Connell’s mother is a cleaner, but no one knows the special relationship between these facts. They live in the same small Irish town, but that’s where the similarities between them end. The story – if we can call it that – starts in 2011, with the primary characters Connell and Marianne as teenagers. Normal People is millennial wunderkind Sally Rooney’s second novel, published in 2018 (her first, Conversations With Friends, was published the year prior). (As per normal, there are affiliate links on this page, and I’ll earn a small commission if you buy something through one of them.)
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