NORMAL PEOPLE

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue paper-covered boards lettered in white to the spine, in the Henn Kim dustwrapper. Ring-pull patterned endpapers. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£14.99 to the front flap). An excellent example of the true, and quite scarce, first printing (not to be confused with the Waterstones edition, issued without dustwrapper).

The author's second novel, securely consolidating the critical acclaim and success of 'Conversations with Friends' (2017). Both books have reached a wider audience as a result of recent BBC television adaptations. 'Normal People' was immediately showered with praise, winning the Costa Prize, 'Irish Novel of the Year' at the Irish Book Awards, Waterstones Book of the Year, in addition to being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction. In her 'New Statesman' review of the novel, Olivia Laing singles out "the extraordinary pitch of Rooney's writing, the way it shimmers with intelligence. Each sentence is measured and unobtrusive, and yet the cumulative effect is a near-unbearable attentiveness to the emotional dimension of human lives, the quick uneasy weather."