“Normal People” is coming to the small screen. Hulu handed out a straight to series order on a 12-episode, half-hour drama based on Irish author Sally Rooney’s buzzy best-selling novel. Hettie Macdonald (“Howards End”) and Lenny Abrahamson (“Room”) will each direct six episodes, a press release confirmed.

First published in the U.S. earlier this year, “Normal People” charts the ever-evolving relationship between Marianne and Connell from “the end of their school days in small-town west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College,” the announcement details. “At school, he’s well-liked and popular, while she’s lonely, proud, and intimidating. But when Connell comes to pick up his mother from her cleaning job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers – one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re both studying in Dublin and Marianne has found her feet in a new social world but Connell hangs at the side lines, shy and uncertain.”

Daisy Edgar-Jones (“War of the Worlds”) has been cast as Marianne, and Paul Mescal as Connell.

Rooney is adapting her book alongside writers Alice Birch and Mark O’Rowe. The project, which is kicking off production this week in Dublin, is in association with BBC Three.

“From the moment we read ‘Normal People’ we were smitten. This anatomy of a will-they-or-won’t-they romance perfectly and uniquely captures the highs and lows of young true love.” said Beatrice Springborn Hulu’s VP, Content Development.

“It’s so interesting as a writer of novels to be like, ‘Now there’s a whole team of people who are creative, who have their own interests.’ Whereas, as a novelist, the only thing that rules is my whims,” Rooney has said of working on the TV version of “Normal People.” “The idea of collaborative process is just so new to me. Really new and really different and it’s not necessarily something I ever gravitated towards.”

Rooney’s debut novel, “Conversations with Friends,” arrived Stateside in 2017.