{"id":69206,"date":"2018-11-29T01:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/29\/sally-rooneys-normal-people-named-waterstones-book-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2018-11-29T01:01:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T00:01:07","slug":"sally-rooneys-normal-people-named-waterstones-book-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=69206","title":{"rendered":"Sally Rooney&#039;s Normal People named Waterstones book of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bookseller praises word-of-mouth hit as \u2018cementing her reputation as the voice of her generation\u2019In a win for literary fiction amid declining sales, Sally Rooney\u2019s novel Normal People has been named Waterstones book of the year.Rooney\u2019s second novel, which follows two young people falling in love in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, has sold just under 41,000 copies in hardback in the UK since it was released in August \u2013 five times the hardback sales of her 2017 debut, Conversations With Friends. At 27, Rooney is the now the youngest winner of the award, which goes to the title staff at the UK\u2019s biggest bookshop chain most enjoy recommending. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/nov\/29\/sally-rooneys-normal-people-named-waterstones-book-of-the-year\" target=\"_blank\">Sally Rooney&#039;s Normal People named Waterstones book of the year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bookseller praises word-of-mouth hit as \u2018cementing her reputation as the voice of her generation\u2019In a win for literary fiction amid declining sales, Sally Rooney\u2019s novel Normal People has been named Waterstones book of the year.Rooney\u2019s second novel, which follows two young people falling in love in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}