• Love and Belonging in Sally Rooney's 'Normal People'

  • Jan 4 2024
  • Length: 14 mins
  • Podcast

Love and Belonging in Sally Rooney's 'Normal People' By cover art

Love and Belonging in Sally Rooney's 'Normal People'

Listen for free

View show details

  • Summary

  • The novel Normal People, which was first published in 2018, is the second book of Irish author Sally Rooney. The Guardian referred to her as a “27-year-old novelist defining a generation.”

    As soon as the book became available, it instantly gained popularity: it was longlisted for the 2018 Booker Prize and won the Best Novel category at the 2018 Costa Book Awards. It was also longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2019. A TV series based on the novel premiered on BBC Three and Hulu in 2020.

    The protagonists of the novel, Marianne and Connell, are teenagers who attend the same secondary school in County Sligo, in northwestern Ireland, and later move to Dublin as students at Trinity College. The story is built around their complex, on-and-off relationship and its development through time.

    Rooney describes them as “two people who, over the course of several years, apparently could not leave one another alone.”
    Show more Show less
activate_primeday_promo_in_buybox_DT
Art Social Sciences
Show more Show less

What listeners say about Love and Belonging in Sally Rooney's 'Normal People'

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.com reviews

Amazon reviews
No Reviews are Available