Acts of Desperation | signed by the author

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While stocks last, treat yourself to a copy of the international best-selling novel by Megan Nolan, who also wrote the introduction to The Fly on the Wheel.

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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.

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 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?

Megan Nolan was heralded as “a huge literary talent” by Karl Ove Knausgaard, and is an award-winning author whose debut novel Acts of Desperation was published in 2021 and has now sold into 13 languages. Her other writing includes essays, columns and reviews which have been published widely, including in The New York Times, The White Review, The Sunday Times, The Village Voice, The Guardian and in the literary anthology, Winter Papers.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD

*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