{"product_id":"acts-of-desperation-megan-nolan","title":"Acts of Desperation","description":"\u003cp\u003e**THE TIMES BESTSELLER**\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*A NEW STATESMAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, i AND STYLIST BOOK OF 2021*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Please believe the hype ... a seriously exciting writer' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The millennial author everyone should be watching right now' Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Such brilliant writing about female desire, co-dependant love...Incredibly honest and visceral' Marian Keyes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscover this bitingly honest, darkly funny debut novel about a toxic relationship and secret female desire, from an emerging star of Irish literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLove was the final consolation, would set ablaze the fields of my life in one go, leaving nothing behind. I thought of it as a force which would clean me and by its presence make me worthy of it. There was no religion in my life after early childhood, and a great faith in love was what I had cultivated instead. Oh, don't laugh at me for this, for being a woman who says this to you. I hear myself speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNone 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow could it be true that a woman like me could need a man's love to feel like a person, to feel that I was worthy of life? And what would happen when I finally wore him down and took it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A dark, intense account of an obsessive love affair. It's great on the elation of falling in love and then its flip side, the anxiety, fixation and self-doubt. A really fine debut' David Nicholls\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Megan Nolan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47311834349737,"sku":"9781787333369","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781787333369.jpg?v=1785558009","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/acts-of-desperation-megan-nolan","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}