Sally Rooney’s novel became a pop-culture phenomenon on screen and made stars of Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones as Connell and Marianne, forever drawn together and pushed apart like magnets. One sentence could put things right between them, and neither can bring themselves to say it.
In a small town in the west of Ireland, Connell is the popular boy who plays football, while Marianne, in his year at school, has no friends and doesn’t seem to want any. When something sparks between them, they agree that nobody at school will ever know. The arrangement survives for years, through Dublin and through other relationships, and in all that time they never quite manage to say what it is.
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