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Sally Rooney breathes new life into fiction. Her novels deal with ordinary life in all its unexpected ways. The *Guardian* said of Rooney’s debut novel, *[Conversations with Friends][1]*: ‘It’s rare that a novel elicits such ferocious and unmitigated awe from just about everyone you know, whether male, female, or millennial’. Rooney’s second novel, *[Normal People][2]* (published by Faber & Faber last September), was called ‘superb . . . a tremendous read, full of insight and sweetness’ by Anne Enright. Olivia Laing has stated that ‘Rooney is the best young novelist – indeed one of the best novelists – I’ve read in years.’
On the occasion of the paperback publication of *Normal People*, Rooney was in conversation with Kishani Widyaratna, editor at Picador Books and contributing editor at *The White Review*.
> **[Click here to watch the video of this event on our YouTube channel.][3]**
[1]: /on-our-shelves/book/9780571333134/conversations-with-friends
[2]: /on-our-shelves/book/9780571334650/normal-people
[3]: https://youtu.be/4jH_0rg46Es
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