Ordinary Human Failings
The compulsive new novel from the author of Acts of DesperationSelect a format:
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Summary
***SHORTLISTED FOR FICTION - 2023 NERO BOOK AWARDS***
After the death of a young girl, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive family…
‘Gripping… A triumph’
SUNDAY TIMES
‘Heartbreaking’
VOGUE
It’s 1990 in London and, after the death of a young girl on an estate, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive Irish family: the Greens.
At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, other-worldly, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances until life – and love – got in her way. Now, as the scandal unfolds and the tabloids hunt their monster, she must confront the secrets and silences that have trapped her family for so many generations.
***A DAILY TELEGRAPH, TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF 2023***
‘Daring, brilliant… Bold and beautiful’
DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘A compulsive read’
THE TIMES
‘A writer to be read on her own terms’
FINANCIAL TIMES
After the death of a young girl, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive family…
‘Gripping… A triumph’
SUNDAY TIMES
‘Heartbreaking’
VOGUE
It’s 1990 in London and, after the death of a young girl on an estate, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive Irish family: the Greens.
At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, other-worldly, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances until life – and love – got in her way. Now, as the scandal unfolds and the tabloids hunt their monster, she must confront the secrets and silences that have trapped her family for so many generations.
***A DAILY TELEGRAPH, TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF 2023***
‘Daring, brilliant… Bold and beautiful’
DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘A compulsive read’
THE TIMES
‘A writer to be read on her own terms’
FINANCIAL TIMES
Reviews
Megan Nolan's debut novel saw her grouped with other Irish millennial women such as Sally Rooney and Naoise Dolan. But with her ambitious and insightful second novel, Ordinary Human Failings, Nolan makes it clear she is not a manifestation of a type, but rather a writer to be read on her own terms
Financial Times
