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In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation &#8211; awkward but electrifying &#8211; something life-changing begins.<\/p>\n<p><i>Normal People<\/i> is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ THE BOOK OF THE HIT TV SERIES: THE BBC ADAPTATION OF<i> NORMAL PEOPLE <\/i>IS NOW AVAILABLE ON BBC IPLAYER AND BBC 1<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. 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It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us &#8211; blazingly &#8211; about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[68],"product_tag":[858,672],"class_list":["post-93861","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-general-fiction","product_tag-adult-contemporary-romance","product_tag-romance","pa_book_author-rooney-sally","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-823-92-edition23","pa_edition-1st-paperback-ed","pa_imprint-faber-faber","pa_language-english","pa_pages-9780","pa_publisher-faber-faber","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Normal People<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"*** BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU IS OUT NOW***&#039;The best young novelist - indeed one of the best novelists - I&#039;ve read in years.&#039; Olivia Laing&#039;Superb . . . a tremendous read, full of insight and sweetness.&#039; Anne Enright&#039;One the best novels I have read in years.&#039; Sheila HetiConnell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. 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