NORMAL PEOPLE

Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original dark blue paper covers with titles in pink, light blue and white. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with some rubbing and light marking. The contents are clean throughout. Scarce in proof state.

Inscribed by the author in black ink on the title page "To Marie / With very best wishes / Sally Rooney". The author's second novel, securely consolidating the critical acclaim and success of 'Conversations with Friends' (2017). Both books have reached a wider audience as a result of recent BBC television adaptations. 'Normal People' was immediately showered with praise, winning the Costa Prize, 'Irish Novel of the Year' at the Irish Book Awards, Waterstones Book of the Year, in addition to being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction. In her 'New Statesman' review of the novel, Olivia Laing singles out "the extraordinary pitch of Rooney's writing, the way it shimmers with intelligence. Each sentence is measured and unobtrusive, and yet the cumulative effect is a near-unbearable attentiveness to the emotional dimension of human lives, the quick uneasy weather."