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Ordinary Human Failings
- Narrated by: Jessica Regan
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024.
A Highly Anticipated Novel of 2023 in The Times, i-D, Esquire and 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.
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- Ida Louise Gilbert
- 22-10-24
Tough read about human failings.
I found it a Tough read about human failings and sufferings. Tragedy destroying lives. Well written. Good ending.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-03-24
Revealing inner thoughts of familiar characters
I liked that the book did not follow a predictable path. The characters seemed familiar and typical of a common current narrative, but the depth of their thoughts and self reflections made them complex and likeable.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-07-23
Heartbreaking poignant
The familiar and unfamiliar, poignantly heartbreaking. You want more for each character but know they have been dealt their cards and do with them what they will. I look forward to reading more from this writer, skilled at mining the psychology of human failings.
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- Daniella
- 24-07-23
sad insightful but hopeful also
beautifully written and so well observed. at times almost too heartbreaking but also too engaging to stop. perfect narrator also.
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- Talland
- 20-10-23
Disappointing
Disappointing. I persevered, but a poor conclusion to the story,
Far too much hot air.
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- naomi
- 05-08-23
Fantastic writing!
Such a wonderful book. Megan Nolan is an amazing writer. I loved it and will think about it for a long time.
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- Evi
- 31-07-23
I loved this book
This author writes characters with such depth and such love that they lodge deep in your heart, familiar and strange at the same time. She portrays the grip of alcoholism like no other too. Grateful to be alive at the same time as Meg Nolan.
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- Francesca Anderson
- 21-03-24
A harrowing but astonishing listen
I’ve just finished an feel a little too emotional to leave a coherent review. But……WOW! Absolutely tragic, yet out of this story of such sadness comes beautiful hope. I really want there to be a sequel where everyone lives happily ever after!
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- Catherine Davis
- 03-10-23
Sad but insightful and hopeful
It’s not a cheerful book, but I’m always interested in reading books with flawed characters.
Well written and narrated
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