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Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, The White Review, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Kevin Barry’s Stonecutter and The Winter Page anthology. Her debut novel, Conversations with Friends, was the most popular debut in the 2017 end-of-year round-ups. Rooney was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for ‘Mr Salary’ and was the winner of the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award.
- Winner of the 2019 Novel of the Year and Book of the Year at the British Book Awards
- Winner of the 2018 Costa Novel Award
- Winner of Specsavers National Book Awards International Author of the Year
- Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018
- Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019.
‘A novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.’ The Washington Post
‘Arguably the buzziest novel of the season, Sally Rooney’s elegant sophomore effort . . . is a worthy successor to Conversations with Friends. Here, again, she unflinchingly explores class dynamics and young love with wit and nuance.’ The Wall Street Journal
‘Rooney has been hailed as the first great millennial novelist for her stories of love and late capitalism. . . . [She writes] some of the best dialogue I’ve read.’ The New Yorker
‘THE LITERARY PHENOMENON OF THE DECADE.’ Guardian
‘Brilliant … It takes immense talent to write this well and make it look so easy … This is a novel that one enjoys like comfort food, with delight, all in a rush, and only once it has been consumed does one realise how formidable and nourishing it is, how heavy it sits inside you, a treat you’ll be digesting long after you leave the table.’ The Australian
‘Rooney’s work is undeniably a voice for millennial fiction. My generation. Reading it felt like someone had captured my thoughts (even the secret ones) and made me feel less alone – until it ended, and then it was heartbreaking.’ Annie Brown, Good Weekend, Sydney Morning Herald
‘Effortlessly brilliant … tender and devastating.’ Guardian Books of the Year
‘In Normal People, Sally Rooney essentially gives us a field guide to relating to other humans – with the in-built pleasures of an exceptionally good literary romance.’ Sydney Morning Herald
‘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.’ Vanity Fair
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