ORDINARY HUMAN FAILINGS

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 acrossa 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.

At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, other-worldly, broken, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances until life - and love - got in her way. Crushed by failure and surrounded by disappointment, there''s nowhere for her to go and no chance of escape. Now, with the police closing in on a suspect and the tabloids hunting their monster, she must confront the secrets and silences that have trapped her family for so many generations.

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A dead child ona London estate and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive Irish family: the Greens. . .

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