Acts of Desperation: The must-read novel
Mar 2021 · Random House
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD
'Crushing...intensely vital' Observer
'It's impossible to tear yourself away' The Times
'Such brilliant writing about female desire...honest and visceral' Marian Keyes
She's twenty-three and in love with love. He's older, and the most beautiful man she's ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming.
But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. She's intent on winning him over, but neither is living up to the other's ideals. He keeps emailing his glamorous ex, and she's starting to give in to secret, shameful cravings of her own. The search for a fix is frantic, and taking a dangerous turn...
We're all looking to get what we want - but do we know what we need?
*GRAZIA BOOK CLUB PICK OF THE MONTH *
'Crushing...intensely vital' Observer
'It's impossible to tear yourself away' The Times
'Such brilliant writing about female desire...honest and visceral' Marian Keyes
She's twenty-three and in love with love. He's older, and the most beautiful man she's ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming.
But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. She's intent on winning him over, but neither is living up to the other's ideals. He keeps emailing his glamorous ex, and she's starting to give in to secret, shameful cravings of her own. The search for a fix is frantic, and taking a dangerous turn...
We're all looking to get what we want - but do we know what we need?
*GRAZIA BOOK CLUB PICK OF THE MONTH *
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4.3
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sude dramali
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February 3, 2022
A great read but also quite overwhelming and heavy.
Martina Collender
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March 31, 2024
Amazing book. Gutwrenchingly honest and powerful.
About the author
Megan Nolan was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland and is currently based in New York. Her essays and reviews have been published by the New York Times, White Review, Guardian and Frieze amongst others. For her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, Nolan was the recipient of a Betty Trask Award, shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Ordinary Human Failings was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the Nero Book Award for Fiction, the Gordon Burn Prize and the RSL Encore Award.
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