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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.

In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance, he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing. If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her.

In ihrem magnetischen Debut erzählt Megan Nolan die Geschichte einer unmöglichen Liebe: Die Ich-Erzählerin, eine junge Frau, trifft in Dublin in einer Galerie Ciaran, "den schönsten Mann der Welt", und verliebt sich Hals über Kopf in ihn. Sie haben eine kurze, intensive Beziehung, dann bleibt sie allein zurück, schwankend zwischen Unabhängigkeit und dem Wunsch, begehrt zu werden, auch wenn sie instinktiv spürt, dass Ciaran nicht gut für sie ist.