![]() ![]() It takes many years for them to learn to talk to each other, to reveal their whole selves. This leads to lots of misunderstandings and miscommunication. Over the years, as they grow older, they continue to struggling with their feelings about themselves and each other. We follow Marianne and Connell through their last year of high school into university. From that moment, wherever they go, their lives are entwined. Talking to each other at Marianne’s one day, while Connell was waiting for his mom, the two teens had a conversation that starts a complicated friendship. He calls his mother by her first name, Lorraine. In contrast, Connell is a center forward on the football team and one of the popular boys, and he and his mother are friends. ![]() Her home life is no better, with physical and mental abuse. While the teenagers talk to each other when Marianne comes to pick up his mother after work, they do not acknowledge each other at school.Īt school, both Marianne and Connell are very smart. Connell’s mother was a single mother who had him at the age of 17 and one of her brothers served time in prison.Ĭonnell’s mother works as a maid for Marianne’s rich family. Marianne’s mother is a solicitor, and her father was one as well. Both of them are being brought up by their mother Marianne’s father died when she was 13 and Connell never knew his father. Marianne and Connell go to the same school, but are from opposite sides of the track. Normal People is a contemporary fiction novel written by Sally Rooney set in Ireland. ![]()
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