Normal People

The best novel published this year. ― The Times

A future classic. ― Guardian

Quite astonishing. ― Independent

The most enjoyable novel of the year. ― Daily Telegraph

The best young novelist – indeed one of the best novelists – I’ve read in years. — Olivia Laing ― New Statesman

Rooney has given us a spellbinding twenty-first-century love story, and asserted herself as one of the major young writers in the English-speaking world. ― TLS

Effortlessly brilliant . . . tender and devastating. ― Guardian Books of the Year

The best book I read last year. — Nigella Lawson

Best novel this year by a country mile is Normal People by Sally Rooney . . . Brilliant. ― Spectator Books of the Year

Love, sex, class, work, miscommunication and melancholy are all described in prose that is somehow at once lapidary and mysterious; glittering but with the feeling of something moving like weather behind the sentences. ― New Statesman Books of the Year

Rooney’s second novel is one you read in three days flat, a Tube stop-missing, escalator-reading tale . . . Rooney’s style is pure poetry, sparse and heartbreaking, and writing this three months after I finished it I find my chest still aches for the pair of them. ― Evening Standard Books of the Yea