Normal People: The Scripts

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Absolutely engrossing and surprisingly heart-breaking with more depth, subtlety, and insight than any one novel deserves. Sally Rooney is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends, Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You. With an introduction by director Lenny Abrahamson and featuring iconic images from the show, this book contains the complete screenplays of the acclaimed Emmy-nominated television drama based on Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel. Delve deeper into the Emmy- and Golden Globe–nominated Hulu series based on Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel with this must-have collection of the Normal People scripts, featuring behind-the-scenes photos and an introduction by director Lenny Abrahamson.Her second feature will be an adaptation of the Graham Swift novel Mothering Sunday for Number 9 Films and Film4. Normal People is a nuanced and flinty love story about two young people who ‘get’ each other, despite class differences and the interference of their own vigorous personal demons. Other awards include: winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2018 and the George Devine Award (for Revolt. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the television adaptation of Normal People, which was broadcast on CBC Gem in 2020. Rooney] has invented a sensibility entirely of her own: sunny and sharp, free of artifice but overflowing with wisdom and intensity.

This edition of Normal People is printed in Aldus type on cream sheet-fed wood-free paper and comes quarter bound in a claret cloth with contrasting pink head and tail bands and ribbon. Home to William Golding, Sylvia Plath, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Max Porter, Ingrid Persaud, Anna Burns and Rachel Cusk, among many others, Faber is proud to publish some of the greatest novelists from the early twentieth century to today.

With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading. I became infatuated with the TV show adaptation when it was broadcasted during the summer lockdown of last year, after I read the novel, and reading this just reminded me of how much I enjoyed binge-watching the series.

Her work has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The White Review, The Stinging Fly, and the Winter Pages anthology.With an introduction by director Lenny Abrahamson and featuring iconic images from the show, Normal People:The Scripts contains the complete screenplays of the acclaimed Emmy-nominated television drama based on Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel. Faber Members get access to live and online author events and receive regular e-newsletters with book previews, promotional offers, articles and quizzes. Delve deeper into the Emmy- and Golden Globe–nominated Hulu series based on Sally Rooney's bestselling novel with this must-have collection of the Normal People scripts, featuring behind-the-scenes photos and an introduction by director Lenny Abrahamson. O'Rowe's third film, Perrier's Bounty, was nominated for three IFTAs and his adaptation of Daniel Clay's novel Broken won Best Independent Feature at the BIFAs in 2012.