*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024**SHORTLISTED FOR FICTION – 2023 NERO BOOK AWARDS*After the death of a young girl, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive family…‘Ambitious and original’ DAVID NICHOLLS‘Gripping… A triumph’ SUNDAY TIMESIt’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, NEW STATESMAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Daring, brilliant… Bold and beautiful’ DAILY TELEGRAPH‘A compulsive read’ THE TIMES‘Heartbreaking’ VOGUE
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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
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781529922639
Publisert
2024-04-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
174 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter

Biographical note

Megan Nolan was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland and is currently based in New York. Her essays and reviews have been published by the New York Times, White Review, Guardian and Frieze amongst others. For her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, Nolan was the recipient of a Betty Trask Award, shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Ordinary Human Failings has been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Nero Book Award for Fiction and the Gordon Burn Prize.