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In-person Arts & Culture

Book Clubs of EPL: Normal People

Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026
3:00pm to 4:00pm

Edmonton Public Library (Lois Hole)

books book clubs

Free

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Organized by: Edmonton Public Library

Jan.
25

Love reading? Love to talk about books you've read? Come join us for lively discussions on all types of fiction and non-fiction. We'll feature different titles and authors each month. Come and share your impressions, thoughts and interpretations of a book we have all read.

This month we will be reading Normal People by Sally Rooney.

"Connell Waldron is one of the most popular boys in his small-town high
school--he is a star of the football team, an excellent student, and
never wanting for attention from girls. The one thing he doesn't have is
money. Marianne Sheridan, a classmate of Connell's, has the opposite
problem. Marianne is plain-looking, odd, and stubborn, and while her
family is well-off, she has no friends to speak of. There is, however, a
deep and undeniable connection between the two teenagers, one that
develops into a secret relationship. Everything changes when both
Connell and Marianne are accepted to Trinity College. Suddenly Marianne
is well-liked and elegant, holding court with her intellectual friends
while Connell hangs at the sidelines, not quite as fluent in language of
the elite. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell
circle each other, falling in and out of romance but never straying far
from where they started. And as Marianne experiments with an
increasingly dangerous string of boyfriends, Connell must decide how far
he is willing to go to save his oldest friend."

Please login to your account with your library card and then register to reserve a copy of the book.

Edmonton Public Library (Lois Hole)

17650 69 Avenue
Edmonton, AB, T5T 3X9