The bestselling novel by Sally Rooney about two adolescents growing up in Ireland has become a literary phenomenon, making the long-list for the 2018 Man Booker Prize and winning at the 2019 British Book Awards as well as crushing book clubs around the country.

This is now being adapted to BBC3, with the creator penning the script herself.

The series follows Marianne and Connell, two teenagers from very different backgrounds, both living in a small west of Ireland town. The story sees them leave home and become young adults, “in an exquisite and compulsive modern love story about how two people can profoundly impact each other’s lives.”

According to the official synopsis, “Normal People tracks the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne and Connell from the end of their school days in small-town west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College.

At school, he’s well-liked and popular, while she’s lonely, proud and intimidating. But when Connell comes to pick up his mother from her cleaning job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers – one they are determined to conceal.

“A year later, they’re both studying in Dublin and Marianne has found her feet in a new social world but Connell hangs at the side lines, shy and uncertain.”

Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama, announced the drama with the statement: “Sally Rooney will be adapting her forthcoming novel Normal People for the channel. Sally is fast becoming the voice of her generation and the BBC is thrilled to be working with her on her first piece for television.

Normal People is a beautifully crafted story of love and friendship. It was a thrill to read it ahead of publication, and see how she has started to adapt this story of millennial angst for BBC Three.”

Sally Rooney, who adapted her novel alongside writers Alice Birch and Mark O’Rowe, said: “I feel very privileged to be working with such an extraordinary team on the adaptation of Normal People. I’m looking forward to the challenge of working in a new form, and of thinking about these characters and their lives in new ways.”

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