Sally Rooney’s Normal People is an exploration of friendships, mutual fascination and love that starts with a single conversation between Connell and Marianne. Both grew up in a small Irish town but they are wildly different, Connor is popular while Marianne is a loner, overlooked by her peers but somehow their connection is electrifying. As the years unfold, the reader follows the pair as they try to stay apart but prove they can’t. This literary phenomenon of a bestselling and award-winning novel from Sally Rooney is also now a hit TV adaptation