Select Guide Rating Review A beautiful, pitch-perfect adaptation. Independent A millennial love story for the ages. Rolling Stone Normal People is, in a word, gorgeous. Irish Times Culture A small-screen triumph. Guardian Book Description The perfect gift for 2020 - the complete screenplays of the acclaimed Emmy-nominated television drama based on Sally Rooney's bestselling novel. From the Back Cover Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular. Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation, something life-changing begins.