Normal People bookBy Sally Rooney At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. Hes popular and well adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Mariannes house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagersone they are determined to conceal. A year later, theyre both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has