Author | Sally Rooney |
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Audio read by | Aoife McMahon |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel (Romance) |
Set in | Dublin and Carricklea, County Sligo[1] |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Publication date | 30 August 2018 |
Publication place | Ireland |
Media type | |
Pages | 266 |
Awards | 2019 British Book Award for Book of the Year[2] |
ISBN | 978-0-571-33464-3 |
OCLC | 1061023590 |
823/.92 | |
LC Class | PR6118.O59 N67 2018 |
Normal People is a 2018 novel by the Irish author Sally Rooney. Normal People is Rooney's second novel, published after Conversations with Friends (2017). It was first published by Faber & Faber on 30 August 2018.[3] The book became a best-seller in the US, selling almost 64,000 copies in hardcover in its first four months of release.[4] A critically acclaimed and Emmy nominated television adaptation of the same name aired from April 2020 on BBC Three and Hulu. A number of publications ranked it one of the best books of the 2010s.