Three married couples gather in a country house to celebrate the forty-eighth birthday of one of them. For everyone, this is an excuse to take a short break from children, endless bills and elderly parents.After an evening at the bar, the birthday boy suggests a game — to switch partners for one night. No one seems to have taken this idea seriously, but at some point several people disappear from the library. The next morning, no one talks about what happened. But the birthday boy's wife doesn't talk to him anymore, his girlfriend looks at him strangely, and it seems that everyone knows a little more than he does. What happened that night? And what will happen now for every evening that someone doesn't remember and someone can't forget?"The novel Normal People, written for married people." — Irish Times"I fell in love with this Dublin love polygon... The story of the difficulties and temptations of modern marriage reveals the devastating consequences of selfishness." — Daily Mail— Have you ever felt that marriage is sometimes like a small business: accounting, human resources management, training, maintaining beauty in the window?Conor laughed.— Except that you can't fire staff for embezzlement.— You can. It's called a divorce.