Ordinary human failings : a novel / Megan Nolan.
Publication details: London : Jonathan Cape, 2023.Description: 218 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781787334427
- Irish -- England -- Fiction
- Nineteen nineties -- Fiction
- Family life -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- England -- London -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Journalists -- Fiction
- Irish -- England -- London -- Fiction
- Reporters and reporting -- Fiction
- Children -- Death -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Tabloid newspapers -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Fiction
- 823.92 23
- PR6114.O475 O73 2023
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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New book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | NOL | Issued | 08/05/2024 | 072987 |
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.