![]() Similar to her first novel Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney doesn’t use speech marks. The book is written in a style which I, upon first hearing about it, deemed to be lazy rather than stylistic. Many BookTubers have also said that something about Sally Rooney’s writing is hard to get on with, and their enjoyment of the book is either 1) heavily impacted by the show if they watched it first (like I did), or 2) non-existent the first time around but after watching the show, is enjoyed slightly more afterwards when they go back to re-read. ![]() My grandad, as I mentioned, loved it and my granny who read it afterwards, did not. Something about Normal People either engages people or completely shuts them off. Then, my flatmate got me the book for my birthday, which I read in August and, once again, was stunned. A couple of weeks after it aired, I watched the show first (a sin for booklovers, I know) and was blown away by the intimate, thoughtful depictions of Marianne and Connell, whom we follow from their final year of school until their graduation from university. ![]() ![]() My recommendation for both the book and the show came from an unusual source – my nearly 80-year-old grandad, who soon set out on a quest to read everything Sally Rooney has ever written. Chances are (if you’ve clicked on this!) you’ve probably heard of Normal People, Waterstones Book of the Year in 2018 and the ensuing immensely popular BBC production which premiered during the dark days of the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns. ![]()
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