![]() ![]() ![]() And despite the youth of the protagonists and the Catcher in the Rye vibe, their story is just as applicable to intense human friendships and relationships at any stage of life.Īs well as being emotions-focused, the novel also has social realism, dealing effectively with the clash of class and culture between rural Ireland and metropolitan Dublin and life in post Celtic Tiger Ireland.īeautifully written, much in short, clipped clauses and sentences, very much "show not tell", it displays remarkable talent and maturity for such a young writer and makes for an easy, highly enjoyable read. Human friendships and relationships, the power dynamic that goes with them and the tension between the two: essentially the ability of humans to touch each other so deeply that they are never the same again. Normal People by Sally Rooney 1,126,427 ratings, 3.81 average rating, 107,686 reviews Open Preview Normal People Quotes Showing 1-30 of 737 I' m not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me. Superficially a love story, but much more complex than that. Sally Rooneys 2018 novel, Normal People, is about one of those relationships, the ones where we hurt and we get hurt and we try, perhaps unwisely, to hang. ![]() Read as Gloucester Book Club's July read, and what an inspired choice this was! I really enjoyed this coming-of-age novel about the deep friendship and on/off relationship between two rural Irish teenagers as they progress from sixth form to life at Trinity College Dublin. ![]()
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