Facts about Normal People

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   In 2019, Normal People won the Costa Book Award for Best Novel, competing against established authors despite being Sally Rooney's first published work.

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   Over 800,000 copies of Normal People sold in its first year, making it one of the best-selling debut novels of the 2010s in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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   The novel Normal People explores the relationship between Marianne and Connell across twelve years, from their final years of secondary school through their twenties in Dublin and university at Trinity College.

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   Sally Rooney's debut novel Normal People was published in September 2018 and became a BBC television adaptation in 2020 starring Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones.

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