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Ordinary Human Failings

Audiobook

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.
©2023 Megan Nolan (P)2023 Penguin Audio


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Publisher: Random House Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781529904123
  • File size: 163373 KB
  • Release date: July 13, 2023
  • Duration: 05:40:21

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781529904123
  • File size: 163394 KB
  • Release date: July 13, 2023
  • Duration: 05:42:20
  • Number of parts: 5

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Fiction Literature

Languages

English

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.
©2023 Megan Nolan (P)2023 Penguin Audio


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