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It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants" - ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star looks set to rise when he stumbles across a scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents loved across the neighbourhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and "bad apples": the Greens.

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.

In ihrem magnetischen Debut erzählt Megan Nolan die Geschichte einer unmöglichen Liebe: Die Ich-Erzählerin, eine junge Frau, trifft in Dublin in einer Galerie Ciaran, "den schönsten Mann der Welt", und verliebt sich Hals über Kopf in ihn. Sie haben eine kurze, intensive Beziehung, dann bleibt sie allein zurück, schwankend zwischen Unabhängigkeit und dem Wunsch, begehrt zu werden, auch wenn sie instinktiv spürt, dass Ciaran nicht gut für sie ist.