Ireland’s hottest young literary talent delivers again

Fiction: Normal People, By Sally Rooney, Faber and Faber, €15

Irish author Sally Rooney writes about characters who find themselves in positions of discomfort. They’re not off fighting wars. They’re not doing conspicuously great things in the world. They’re leading pretty small lives. But they find themselves nonetheless grappling with big questions: questions around identity; questions around sex; questions around relationships, art and ambition. These characters are intellectually probing; they’re also young and ...