The Irish author Sally Rooney made waves in the literacy world when her second book ‘Normal People’ became the talk of the town in 2018. The BBC TV adaptation of the popular book, dropped on Hulu at the end of last week. It tells the coming-of-age story of Marianne and Connell, two teenagers from different social backgrounds navigating their last year of school in a small Irish town and moving onto college life at Trinity College in Dublin.

This is the perfect book for all book lovers who fell in love with the joy of reading as a child. British author Lucy Mangan’s delightful book not only takes the reader on a nostalgic stroll down literary lane, but also tells the surprising stories behind classic books and the authors who wrote them.