Normal People by Sally Rooney

Some time ago, we had the pleasure of introducing a relatively unknown novelist by the name of Sally Rooney, whose very first work, Conversations With Friends, so captivated her audience that she was catapulted from obscurity to fame in a matter of weeks. Despite a curious, and continuing, insistence on not attaching quotation marks to the dialogue for which she is known, two years later she’s done it again. Normal People, also set in and around Dublin, with equally young protagonists, is every bit as good