Beschreibung
*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 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 – 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
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.