"When we look beyond the headlines, everyone has a story to tell."

Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan delves into the unfolding of a sensationalist headline story in London, 1990 – the heyday of the British tabloid press.

In the pages we ask you to read (p. 3-54), we follow a young, ambitious hack (a tabloid journalist) as the breaking story develops, uncovering the people involved and the events that immediately follow.

The book continues with a series of flashbacks, digging deeper into the lives of the characters and revealing the stories behind the big story. These details go far beyond the one-dimensional, here-today-gone-tomorrow reports often found in the press.

In December, you will discuss what you think happens next in the story and imagine the lives of the main characters: What happened in their past? Why are they the way they are?

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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