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Sally Rooney Says She Is Not Accepting Offers To Option Her Third Novel & Reflects On ‘Normal People’ TV Series: “I Felt That World Was Not Where I Belonged”
Sally Rooney has talked 'Intermezzo', and the 'Normal People' and 'Conversations With Friends' TV adaptations.
The Normal People author revealed to the New York Times that she has decided not to accept any offers so far to adapt her third novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, into a TV show. Rooney co-wrote the TV version of her second book, Normal People, for the BBC, Hulu and Element Pictures, which was a huge hit with audiences and critics, launching the careers of Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones. Speaking to the NYT upon the publication of her fourth novel, Intermezzo, Rooney, who has been dubbed the “first great millennial novelist,” a phrase she dismisses, said she “felt [the TV] world was not where I belonged” after the Normal People adaptation.
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