【明報專訊】NORMAL PEOPLE, written by aspiring young writer Sally Rooney, is very highly regarded by book reviewers. Kate Clanchy wrote in The Guardian that it is a "future classic", while it is also a New York Times bestseller. It was even long-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize, the holy grail of literature. Such is the cachet of the book that it seems somehow blasphemous to detract from (貶低) its greatness.