Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. 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.' Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. 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. '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.

Both books have reached a wider audience as a result of recent BBC television adaptations. The author's second novel, securely consolidating the critical acclaim and success of 'Conversations with Friends' (2017). Beyond that however is something properly universal, a study of how one person can forever shape and impact another. Signed by Sally Rooney in black ink on the title page. Normal People is a tale of deceptive simplicity, a very accessible narrative of two seemingly mismatched young people who share a profound, inescapable understanding.

An excellent example of the true, and quite scarce, first printing (not to be confused with the Waterstones edition, issued without dustwrapper). Not price-clipped (£14.99 to the front flap). Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. A fine copy, the binding square and tight.

Publisher's original blue paper-covered boards lettered in white to the spine, in the Henn Kim illustrated dustwrapper.

Normal people book cover