Marianne is the young, affluent, intellectual wallflower; Connell is the boy everyone likes, shadowed by his family’s reputation
and poverty. Unlikely friends, and later lovers, their small town beginnings in rural Ireland are swiftly eclipsed by the heady
worlds of student Dublin. Gradually their intense, mismatched love becomes a battleground of power, class, and the falsehoods
they choose to believe.
This week's book is Normal People by Sally Rooney and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.