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Ordinary Human Failings: The heart-breaking, unflinching, compulsive new novel from the author of Acts of Desperation

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They spot patterns in the drinking of others, notice that their own lives are getting smaller by the glass. The follow-up to her prize-winning debut The Manningtree Witches is a dark story of “insatiable hunger” set in revolutionary France. A dead child is found on a London Estate, the parents were loved across the neighbourhood but there is an Irish family who are seen as bad apples and potential suspects. 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. When a reporter, Tom Hargreaves, with a fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the ‘peasants’ – ordinary people, his readers – stumbles across this 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’, he persuades his paper to put them up in a hotel with all bar expenses paid.

It's always a bit scary reading the follow-up to an author's incredible debut, as was the case here.We also hear from Carmel’s late mother, Rose, who looked after Lucy in light of Carmel’s indifference; her hermetic and rageful father, John, who had been abandoned by his first wife; and her alcoholic half-brother, Richie. A sweeping exploration of the meaning and mechanics of money, from the Silk Road to Wall Street, written by the Irish economist and author of The Pope’s Children.

A galvanising vision for society that uses the revolutionary ideas of American thinker John Rawls as its starting point.The novel then alternates between chorus and each of the individual friends’ voices as the end of innocence is revealed and childhood bonds are shattered. Barely known in the west, Kim Jong-un’s younger sister exerts enormous influence as propagandist-in-chief and second-in-command of the secretive authoritarian regime. Hotly tipped satire of white privilege and identity politics in publishing, from the bestselling YA author of Babel.

Mae’s insight into a world of seedy glamour – wealth, drugs, perversion – is less via the parties she goes to with her strange, secretive friend, Shelley, and more to do with the tapes the pair are charged with transcribing. Two exes on a road trip through troubled America open “a trapdoor in reality” in a tragicomic novel about past and present.Amanda Craig The finger of suspicion: Ordinary Human Failings, by Megan Nolan, reviewed A tabloid journalist desperate for a scoop pursues a young Irish mother whose daughter is rumoured to have killed a child. Nearly a decade after Let Me Be Frank With You, this final novel in the Frank Bascombe series finds Frank towards the end of his life, acting as caregiver to his son.

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