After months of anticipation, Normal People is now landing on the BBC. Sally Rooney’s hugely popular novel, which follows Marianne and Connell’s dysfunctional love story, will drop as a box set on BBC Three – and also as double-bill episodes from Monday 27th April.
Loner Marianne finds herself deeply unpopular while at school, but when popular jock Connell finds himself at her mansion, the two begin an elicit relationship.
However, when the pair head off to Trinity College Dublin, Marianne finds herself blossoming amongst a new crowd, while Connell is now left struggling.
While Marianne is described in the novel to be “an object of disgust” by her schoolmates, actress Daisy Edgar-Jones, who has been cast to be the bookish character, is
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