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ID: 452659
Title: Acts of Desperation
Author: Megan Nolan
Narrator: Lauren Coe
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:40:38
Language: English
Release date: 03-04-21
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women
Summary:
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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?
© Megan Nolan 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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