Ordinary Human Failings
by Megan Nolan$5 loyalty cash back on every purchase more info
London in the nineties: a tabloid journalist begins to probe long-held secrets of an Irish family implicated in a shocking crime
A Best Book of 2023 in The Times, Sunday Times, i-D, the Guardian
When we look beyond the headlines, everyone has a story to tell
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, otherworldly, 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.
Format: Paperback
Page Count: 240 Pages
Imprint: Vintage
Published: July 2024
ISBN: 9781529922639
