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In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance, he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing. If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her.

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. 

In ihrem magnetischen Debut erzählt Megan Nolan die Geschichte einer unmöglichen Liebe: Die Ich-Erzählerin, eine junge Frau, trifft in Dublin in einer Galerie Ciaran, "den schönsten Mann der Welt", und verliebt sich Hals über Kopf in ihn. Sie haben eine kurze, intensive Beziehung, dann bleibt sie allein zurück, schwankend zwischen Unabhängigkeit und dem Wunsch, begehrt zu werden, auch wenn sie instinktiv spürt, dass Ciaran nicht gut für sie ist.