Normal People

By: Sally Rooney

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins

Unabridged

Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,175 5,175

Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,574 4,574

Story 4 out of 5 stars 4,564 4,564

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us - blazingly - about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege.