Audiobooks by Megan Nolan

Ordinary Human Failings: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024

"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"

Megan Nolan (Author), Jessica Regan (Narrator)

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[German] - Verzweiflungstaten

"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. Eine aufrichtige Selbstbeobachtung, die Geschichte eines weiblichen Begehrens, das sich hinwegsetzt über die eigenen Bedürfnisse – verletzlich und hypnotisch – von einer der aufregendsten neuen Stimmen der Literatur.'Ein riesiges Talent ― und eine Liebesgeschichte wie keine zweite.' - Karl Ove Knausgard-"

Megan Nolan (Author), Franziska Grün (Narrator)

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Acts of Desperation

"Brought to you by Penguin. Love was the final consolation, would set ablaze the fields of my life in one go, leaving nothing behind. I thought of it as a force which would clean me and by its presence make me worthy of it. There was no religion in my life after early childhood, and a great faith in love was what I had cultivated instead. Oh, don't laugh at me for this, for being a woman who says this to you. I hear myself speak. Even now, even after all that took place between us, I can still feel how moved I am by him. Ciaran was that downy, darkening blond of a baby just leaving its infancy. He was the most beautiful man I had ever seen. None of it mattered in the end; what he looked like, who he was, the things he would do to me. To make a beautiful man love and live with me had seemed - obviously, intuitively - the entire point of life. My need was greater than reality, stronger than the truth, more savage than either of us would eventually bear. How could it be true that a woman like me could need a man's love to feel like a person, to feel that I was worthy of life? And what would happen when I finally wore him down and took it? © Megan Nolan 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021"

Megan Nolan (Author), Lauren Coe (Narrator)

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