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Ordinary Human Failings
Reader Score
82%
82% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
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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 seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, 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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Little Brown and Company
- Publish Date: Feb 6th, 2024
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.53in - 5.78in - 0.62in - 0.74lb
- EAN: 9780316567787
- Categories: • Family Life - General• Crime• Literary
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What people are saying
Nolan’s delicate yet powerful characterizations…illustrate immigrant homesickness not by missed friends or good times but neglected gravestones in cemeteries… Perhaps most impressive of all, she confronts dark matters without tumbling into bleak despondency
"An excellent novel... Ordinary Human Failings is an achievement of shade and texture... an achievement in saying some of the plain, earnest things we are often too embarrassed to say – that what might seem a perfectly normal life can nonetheless feel empty or insufficient..."
"It’s a novel that resists the obvious…through a series of flashbacks and reveries, Nolan traces the “rot” that envelops the family to a legacy of emotional inarticulateness, a great failure of communication: one unspoken trauma cascading into another, until a child dies."
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"A subtle, accomplished and lyrical study of familial and intergenerational despair, a quiet book about quiet lives... an excellent novel: politically astute, furious and compassionate... a genuine achievement."--Keiran Goddard, THE GUARDIAN
What people are saying
Nolan’s delicate yet powerful characterizations…illustrate immigrant homesickness not by missed friends or good times but neglected gravestones in cemeteries… Perhaps most impressive of all, she confronts dark matters without tumbling into bleak despondency
"An excellent novel... Ordinary Human Failings is an achievement of shade and texture... an achievement in saying some of the plain, earnest things we are often too embarrassed to say – that what might seem a perfectly normal life can nonetheless feel empty or insufficient..."