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Londra, anni Novanta. Tom Hargreaves è un giovane giornalista in un tabloid della città, disposto a tutto per la carriera. Il destino sembra ascoltarlo quando, una sera, si imbatte in uno scoop: in un complesso residenziale in periferia, Mia Enright, una bambina di tre anni, viene ritrovata morta. Subito i sospetti cadono su Lucy Green, la ragazzina della famiglia "sbagliata", arrivata anni prima dall'Irlanda. Gli uomini di casa sono disoccupati e schiavi dell'alcol, e Carmel, la giovane e bellissima madre di Lucy, non si è mai occupata della figlia e non è benvista dai vicini. Così Tom, convinto di avere per le mani la sua grande occasione, convince i Green a rifugiarsi in un albergo a spese del giornale, in cambio di interviste esclusive. Ma i racconti della famiglia rivelano una storia molto meno torbida di quanto credesse, una storia di speranze e fallimenti, di felicità negate e debolezze umane. Dopo "Atti di sottomissione", il romanzo d'esordio candidato al Premio Strega Europeo 2022, Megan Nolan torna con una storia profonda e toccante dove uomini e donne sono intrappolati nel proprio dolore, in una società che si fa scudo dei pregiudizi per difendersi dall'infelicità degli altri. E racconta di rinascita e perdono, di segreti rivelati e silenzi sconfitti dalle parole e dall'amore.
- ISBN: 1280284900
- Casa Editrice: NN Editore
- Pagine: 240
- Data di uscita: 13-06-2023
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this one's for all my true crime haters out there. and also for my general haters out there. because i didn't like this book. like s'mores, or the kind of chocolate chip cookie that's currently popular where it's essentially grainy dough in the middle, this is a great concept that does not achieve wha Leggi tutto
Update : Now longlisted for 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction - Did I already read the winner? I'm so happy to see this on the list. We must refuse to let art and life be treated as news headlines or any other media product. This novel begins with the possible murder of a child by another child, a possib Leggi tutto
in case her debut acts of desperation wasn’t enough, megan nolan 's sophomore novel ordinary human failings definitely cements her as one of the most exciting new novelists today. ordinary human failings follows the greens, a family of irish immigrants who moved to england in the late 1970s after the Leggi tutto
Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 Irish social realism at its best: While the description of the plot - ten-year-old girl is suspected to have killed another child - suggests some thriller, crime or even true crime novel, this set-up only serves as a framing device for an intense, psyc Leggi tutto
so sad i didn't love this :-( review to come. ⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ emma & leah both told me this was like penance by eliza clark so of course i'm reading it
"Theirs were ordinary human failings, tragedies too routine to be of note." 🐛 BookTube review coming soon to Hello, Bookworm . What I thought this book would be : A twisty literary thriller in which an ambitious reporter investigates a child's murder by interrogating a family with many dark and surprisi Leggi tutto
A rich portrait of a family deep in a downward spiral and the tabloid reporter who sees an opportunity. The inciting event of the book is the death of a small child, likely brought about by another child. It's one of those awful stories you can imagine seeing all over a tabloid for weeks where it pl Leggi tutto
What an unexpected sophomore novel from Megan Nolan. From the deeply personal, visceral, can’t-look-away-but-can’t-stop-reading Acts of Desperation, to this quiet, claustrophobic but compelling book. Ordinary Human Failings is a third person narrative about an ordinary family damaged by a series of Leggi tutto
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan*, her much anticipated sophomore novel, is a vastly different book to Acts of Desperation. Where I found the latter frustratingly angsty, Ordinary Human Failings is, by comparison, a book full of the deep complexities of socio-economic inequality, abuses of pow Leggi tutto
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