Normal People has been adapted for television by its author Sally Rooney and screenwriters Alice Birch and Mark O’Rowe.

The story 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, Dublin.

At school, Connell is well-liked and popular, while Marianne is lonely, proud and intimidating.

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.

An honest, smart and intoxicating drama, Normal People sees the pair weave in and out of each other’s lives and explores just how complicated intimacy and young love can be.