Ordinary Human Failings Av Megan Nolan

<p><b>**<i>THE TIMES</i>, <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> AND <i>GUARDIAN </i>BOOK OF 2023**<br><br><i>A dead child on a London estate and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive Irish family: the Greens. . .</i></b><br><br><b>''Heartbreaking, society-examining stuff''</b><br><i>VOGUE</i><br><br><b>''The millennial author everyone should be watching'' </b><br><i>DAILY TELEGRAPH</i><br><br><b>''Nolan is the real deal'' </b><br><i>THE TIMES</i><br><br>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.<br><br>At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, other-worldly, broken, and once destined for a f