The characters themselves would probably say they were ‘great friends’. In its final pages, Rooney writes: ‘All these years they’ve been like two little plants sharing the same plot of soil, growing around one another, contorting to make room, taking certain unlikely positions.’ Marianne and Connell unquestionably love and care for each other. ( Spoiler) Though Marianne and Connell separate early on, they seem unable to stay away from each other for any real length of time. Normal People is a four year journey through young-adulthood. He’s popular but also cripplingly aware of just how quickly that could change if the town found out about his growing feelings towards Marianne. Connell is handsome, top of the class and a star on the football field. Marianne is from a wealthy household and her relationship with Connell begins with her family’s employment of his mother as their cleaner. She does not aspire to fit in and that makes her an anomaly freakish even, to her teenage peers. Marianne is intelligent but decidedly uncool. The novel is set in Ireland and the two main characters are Marianne and Connell. Normal People follows the lives of two young individuals, from their last year in high school to their final years at university. Following the commercial and critical success of Conversations with Friends, young Irish writer Sally Rooney has returned with a second novel already hailed by some as a ‘future classic’.
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