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9781473578517
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" *LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR FICTION 8211 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 TIMES 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 8211 and love 8211 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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Biographisches: " Megan Nolan was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland and is currently based in London. Her essays and reviews have been published by the New York Times , White Review, Guardian and Frieze amongst others. Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2021 and 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." Rezension(2): "Financial Times: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 " Rezension(3): "Daily Telegraph: One masterful novel... Nolan has excelled herself: Ordinary Human Failings is a raw, pulsing thing ... A writer who's still at the start of what promises to be a splendid career. Ordinary Human Failings is a bold and beautiful second novel... daring in all the right ways, but compassionate when it needs to be" Rezension(4): "Sunday Times: 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 " Rezension(5): "New Statesman, *Books of the Year*:Nolan's novel is dark in subject, yet retains a tender faith in a person's, or a family's, capacity for change" Rezension(6): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: October 30, 2023 Irish author Nolan ( Acts of Desperation ) delivers an insightful if lugubrious tale of a family under suspicion for a neighbor girl’s murder. Carmel Green, a young unwed Irish mother in 1990 England, once believed she was “destined for special things.” Now, feeling painfully ordinary, she mourns her faded promise. Carmel and her 10-year-old daughter, Lucy, live with Carmel’s father and brother, both of whom are alcoholics. Her mother, an affable woman who held the family together, died two years ago. Nolan alternates perspectives between the four Greens and Tom, an ambitious newspaper reporter who becomes interested in the family when their three-year-old neighbor is strangled to death, and suspicion falls on Lucy. After the police take Lucy into custody, Tom sequesters Carmel and the men in a small hotel, where he plies them with alcohol in hopes of getting enough material to write a “major, state-of-the-nation piece” on the family of a child murderess. The Greens’ revelations are by turn ironic and sad. Though the gloomy subject matter makes for rough going, Nolan is a gifted writer, capable of stunningly precise observations. This unflinching tale provokes."
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