https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/17/sally-rooneys-radical-novel-normal-people-to-hit-tv-screens-in-2020

As the trailer for BBC 12-parter is released, the production team say the time is right for Sally Rooney’s novel

If Sally Rooney is the “Salinger for the Snapchat generation”, then it seems only fitting the TV adaptation of her novel that garnered the title should be radical, risque and boundary-pushing.

The team behind the small-screen version of Normal People, the Oscar-nominated director Lenny Abrahamson and the producer Ed Guiney, believe complex dramas about young people are increasingly in demand, and the show will sit in a similar space to Sky Atlantic’s Euphoria and Netflix’s Sex Education.