Megan Nolan

El íntimo y desgarrador descenso a los infiernos de una relación obsesiva.«Nolan es un gran talento literario y su primera novela, una historia de amor como ninguna otra.»Karl Ove Knausgård«La escrit

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?

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024WINNER OF THE WRITERS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024Carmel had been alone all her life The baby knew this They looked at each other and all of time was there The baby knew how vast her mother s loneliness had been A magnificent novel SALLY ROONEYNell is a young woman with adventure on her mind As she sets out into the world she finds her family history hard to escape For her mother Carmel Nell s leaving home opens a space in her heart where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn Over them both falls the long shadow of Carmel s famous father an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions From our greatest chronicler of family life The Wren The Wren is a story of the love that can unite us and the individual acts that threaten this vital bond A triumph treasure it SUNDAY TIMES One of the great living writers on the subject of family NEW YORK TIMES A must read MARGARET ATWOOD on Twitter Might just be Anne Enright s best yet LOUISE KENNEDY A SUNDAY TIMES OBSERVER GUARDIAN TLS HARPER S BAZAAR NEW STATESMAN THE NEW YORKER TIME AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR

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 KeyesShe'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 thin, 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 *