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Acts of Desperation

By: Megan Nolan
Narrated by: Lauren Coe
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Love 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.

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. How 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?

©2021 Megan Nolan (P)2021 Penguin Audio Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Women's Fiction
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A Deeply affecting and unashamedly raw story.
I couldn’t tear myself away from it.
Beautifully read.

Loved it

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Tellings of the inner discretions behind how and why we do things in relationships. Its evocative and disturbing and weirdly inviting in its delivery.. i really enjoyed it in an unenjoyable way… i can see how it wouldn’t be everyones choice but i can appreciate the author’s characterisation and ability to capture perspectives with reflective hindsight

Dark and unashamedly honest

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The narrator made this story she made it interesting. Think i would have given up after about four chapters if reading it. Not a happy story. Not one I’d recommend

Wouldn’t have finished it if I had to read it!

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I loved the reader’s voice and delivery. She does the accents perfectly and I appreciate she doesn’t try and drop too low to do the male parts because that always sounds stupid to me.

The story of a young woman rooting around for her own identity in the regard of others is devastatingly relatable. I’d like to have read this when I was in my early twenties. It shows just how different one’s internal experience can be from the way we might be perceived.

I thought it was brilliant.

Beautifully honest.

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