Ordinary Human Failings Signed First Edition
'Nolan is the real deal' The Times
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:13th Jul '23
It is possible we may get another copy in future, but unfortunately unlikely
**THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF 2023**
A dead child on a London estate and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive Irish family: the Greens. . .
'As much of a compulsive read as the first'
THE TIMES
'One masterful novel... Nolan has excelled herself'
TELEGRAPH
It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the 'peasants' - ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star looks set to rise when he stumbles across a scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents loved across the neighbourhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and 'bad apples': the Greens.
At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, other-worldly, broken, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances until life - and love - got in her way. Crushed by failure and surrounded by disappointment, there's nowhere for her to go and no chance of escape. Now, with the police closing in on a suspect and the tabloids hunting their monster, she must confront the secrets and silences that have trapped her family for so many generations.
'Heartbreaking, society-examining stuff'
VOGUE
As much of a compulsive read as the first novel * The Times *
One masterful novel - decades of unspeakable Irish history. Nolan has excelled herself: Ordinary Human Failings is a raw, pulsing thing, unflinching in its gaze but tender in its handling of its broken, bruised protagonists * Telegraph *
Page-turning and written with aching, compassionate insight. Each account leaves your heartstrings taut as cheese wire * Observer *
There is something wonderfully ordinary about this book... Nolan has set out to make a plain three-legged stool rather than an ornate grandfather clock. The corridors of contemporary literature are stuffed with grandfather clocks with faulty mechanisms. How much more valuable is this modest, well-made thing * Sunday Times *
A brilliant analysis of what happens when we treat horror and pain as entertainment. Nolan writes with great compassion -- Nicole Flattery, author of Nothing Special
Heartbreaking, society-examining stuff * Vogue *
Megan Nolan is one of the brightest young things around * The Times, *Summer Reads of 2023* *
This is set to be electric * Sunday Times, *Five Hot Reads for 2023* *
A fearless writer... marks a confident evolution in her writing * Bookseller *
Ordinary Human Failings is something as rare as a chilling, ice cold, bruising novel not shying from the darkest aspects of humanity, at the same time as being compassionate, aching and ultimately hopeful. I inhaled it, and its characters will stay with me for a long long time. Oh she sure can write that Nolan -- Jenny Mustard, author of Okay Days
The millennial author everyone should be watching right now * Daily Telegraph, praise for ACTS OF DESPERATION *
Thrilling... Nolan is the real deal * The Times, praise for ACTS OF DESPERATION *
A mesmerising debut that is a masterpiece from the opening sentence to the bitter end * Independent, praise for ACTS OF DESPERATION *
ISBN: 9781787332508-SF
Dimensions: 222mm x 148mm x 22mm
Weight: 337g
224 pages