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Ordinary Human Failings

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Ordinary Human Failings

Written by: Megan Nolan
Narrated by: Jessica Regan
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When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about their past in this haunting, propulsive, psychologically keen story about class, trauma, and family secrets from “huge literary talent” (Karl Ove Knausgaard) and internationally bestselling author Megan Nolan.

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. Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Thriller Heartfelt England Suspense
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The writer created characters and a story that truly lived up to the book's title. A reminder of how trauma, in whatever form it may present itself, can change the course of one's life. And the power within to heal given the opportunity. Narrator was fluid and dynamic. So much packed into a relatively short book. I expect it will be one I will listen to again.

The characters came to life as their stories unfolded.

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