Ordinary human failings : a novel /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
[2024].
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| Edition: | First North American edition. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape, July 2023" -- Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 217 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780316567787 0316567787 |