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Acts of Desperation
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  • Published: 12 April 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529113013
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $28.00

Acts of Desperation

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12 Apr 2022
EBook
4 Mar 2021
Audiobook
4 Mar 2021
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A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut novel about a toxic relationship and secret female desire, from an emerging star of Irish literature

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 *
  • Published: 12 April 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529113013
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $28.00
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About the author

Megan Nolan

Megan Nolan was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland, and is currently based in London. Her writing has been published widely including in the New York Times, White Review, Sunday Times, Guardian, Village Voice and in the literary anthology, Winter Papers. Regular columns of her cultural commentary appear in i newspaper, Huck Magazine and the New Statesman. Acts of Desperation is her first novel.

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