Description: When an unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power, he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealousy. If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her.
Brief description: Megan Nolan lives in London and was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland. She has a robust and devoted following for her writing which includes essays, fiction and reviews published widely including in the New York Times, the White Review, the Sunday Times, the Village Voice, the Guardian, and in the literary anthology, Winter Papers. Regular columns of her cultural commentary appear in i newspaper, Huck Magazine and the New Statesman. Acts of Desperation is her first novel.
Review Quotes:
"She tells the truth about obsession and drains it of all allure."
-- "New York Times Book Review"