Within a week, the television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People, which explores the oeuvre of two teenage lovers, was requested on BBC...
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"Conflicts in literature don’t work when they fail to resonate".
Regardless of genre, books are most impactful when their crises are rooted in everyday human experience.