Normal People: One million copies sold

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Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. But then a former crewmate's daughter is kidnapped and she's persuaded through means that are not entirely fair. It’s so popular that it’s spawned its own archetype of TikTok girls who listen to Taylor Swift and carry Normal People in their tote bags.

It's a very different tone from this one, which is just a more spirited, adventurous tale with an altogether different kind of protagonist and cast. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can´t.Guardian Books of the Year Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. Rooney's second novel is one you read in three days flat, a Tube stop-missing, escalator-reading tale .

I also wonder if THE THIRTEENTH TALE would be a fit (trauma, well developed characters, a little mystery and is a book about a book! Honestly, I found it a bit intense, but I believe the book portrays that deeper connection and confusion between the two main characters seem particularly special.So just this year, after a lot of work that I did on nervous system regulation and all the things and really shifting my life, quitting my job, I had been able to pick up reading again. Connell is a popular, handsome, and highly intelligent secondary school student who begins a relationship with the unpopular, intimidating, equally intelligent Marianne, whose mother employs Connell's mother as a cleaner.

Plague journals, escapist literature, political history: explore our year in review, where we share rare book trends and a gallery of some of the most beautiful and interesting books sold in 2020. Marianne easily fits in with her upper-class classmates who come from similar backgrounds, some of whom look down on Connell for his lower socioeconomic status. Based on Sally Rooney's namesake book, the story follows Marianne and Connell through the later years of their high-school, their years at college, and the post-collegiate restlessness, failing to be what one wished for oneself only years ago. And she's conscious that her mother, who's like kind of inserting herself back on the scene after a long absence because she wants things from her children, she's very conscious that her early experience with her mother and her ongoing relationship with her is really shaping her life in ways that she does not feel good about. It's about peer pressure, fitting in, family, being a student, being a son or daughter, but above all else it's about love.So You Loved A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi and Severance by Ling Ma. What makes Rooney's books so captivating and impossible to put down is the way she crafts characters and dialogue-at times, the conversations in her books can seem so real that you almost feel like you're eavesdropping on something you shouldn't be.