Normal People. Poster of the 2020 TV series and cover of the 2018 book
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Normal People
Sally Rooney, 2018
TV series vs book
Lenny Abrahamson, Hettie Macdonald, 2020

The series follows Marianne and Connell through their time at secondary school in County Sligo on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, and later as undergraduates at Trinity College Dublin. He is popular in the school community, though he is diminished by remaining silent during the bullying of Marianne.


Dublin Murders. Poster of the 2019 TV series and cover of the 2008 book, The Likeness
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The Likeness
Tana French, 2008
TV series vs book
Sarah Phelps, 2019-

As dusk approaches a townland near Dublin in the summer of 1985, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. Two detectives are dispatched to investigate the murder of a young girl on the outskirts of Dublin, but as the case of the missing children intensifies, both are forced to confront the darkness that lies in their past.


Dublin Murders. Poster of the 2019 TV series and cover of the 2007 book, In the Woods
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In the Woods
Tana French, 2007
TV series vs book
Sarah Phelps, 2019-

As dusk approaches a townland near Dublin in the summer of 1985, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. Two detectives are dispatched to investigate the murder of a young girl on the outskirts of Dublin, but as the case of the missing children intensifies, both are forced to confront the darkness that lies in their past.