Certainly, her deceptively simple prose made both Conversations and Normal People not so much read-able as devour-able, with many fans tweeting how they finished each novel in a single sitting. Rooney’s style – detached but intimate, set, it sometimes feels, to a steady, underlying pulse of anxiety – has seen her quickly acquire burdensome labels like ‘a spokesperson for millennials’ and ‘the Snapchat Salinger’. Irish writer Sally Rooney has, remarkably, had two such moments in as many years, first with her 2017 debut Conversations with Friends and then with this summer's follow-up Normal People, both of which quickly acquired the status of must-reads - and must-be-seen-to-reads - particularly among people who, like Rooney herself, are in their 20s. Every few years a novel comes along and has a ‘public transport moment’, when it feels like every time you step onto a train or bus you see someone with their face buried behind its cover.
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