A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut novel about a toxic relationship and secret female desire, from an emerging star of Irish literature, for fans of Sally Rooney and Nora Ephron
Megan Nolan lives in London and was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland. Her essays, fiction and reviews have been published in The New York Times, The White Review, The Sunday Times, The Village Voice, The Guardian and in the literary anthology, Winter Papers. She writes a fortnightly column for the New Statesman. This is her first novel.
Please believe the hype . . . Nolan is not another Sally Rooney.
She is another seriously exciting writer who happens to be young
and female and Irish . . . Nolan's book describes a very particular
experience and it does so with rare intelligence and courage . .
. [Her] headlong, fearless prose feels like salt wind
on cracked lips. You wince and you thrill. * Sunday Times *
Nigh-on impossible not to devour. * Daily Mail *
A mesmerising debut that is a masterpiece from the opening
sentence to the bitter end, and everything in between. *
Independent *5 new books to read in lockdown* *
Deeply felt and seriously, spikily intelligent . . . The
millennial author everyone should be watching right now. *
Daily Telegraph *
Tapping into the zeitgeist comes one of the books of 2021: Megan
Nolan's Acts of Desperation . . . a
heartbreaking-but-resonating portrait of one woman's savage
mistreatment of herself in the name of love. * Stylist *
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