Ordinary Human Failings - 'Nolan is the real deal' The Times (Hardcover)


**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

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**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

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Jonathan Cape

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

July 2023

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Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days

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Dimensions

222 x 148 x 22mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

224

ISBN-13

978-1-78733-250-8

Barcode

9781787332508

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LSN

1-78733-250-0



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