# Ordinary Human Failings

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- Book: [Ordinary Human Failings](https://www.bookquiver.com/megan-nolan/ordinary-human-failings) ([Ordinary Human Failings.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/megan-nolan/ordinary-human-failings.md))
- Authors: [Megan Nolan](https://www.bookquiver.com/megan-nolan)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 5 h 40 min
- Narrated by: Jessica Regan
- ISBN: 978-15-2990-412-3
- Published: 2023-07-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 5 h 40 min

## Description

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