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Megan Nolan


Born
Waterford, Ireland
Genre
Fiction


Megan Nolan was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland and is currently based in London. Her essays and reviews have been published by the New York Times, White Review, Guardian and Frieze amongst others. Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2021 and 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.

Her second novel, Ordinary Human Failings, will be published by Jonathan Cape in July 2023.

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Average rating: 3.74 · 40,140 ratings · 6,028 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors
Acts of Desperation
3.73 avg rating — 32,136 ratings — published 2021 — 39 editions
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Ordinary Human Failings
3.77 avg rating — 7,962 ratings — published 2023 — 16 editions
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4.19 avg rating — 334 ratings — published 1967 — 5 editions
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“It was already so near to impossible to say no to a man, so difficult to accept the possibility of being hurt or disliked or shouted at. It takes so much out of you to make yourself say no when you have been taught to say yes, to be accommodating, to make men happy.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
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“You always think your pain is the most painful. You always think it's uniquely awful.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
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“It’s a peculiar anger, resenting doing something that nobody asked you to do.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation
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