Ordinary Decent Criminals
Written by Lionel Shriver
Narrated by Melanie MacHugh
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About this audiobook
From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a bold and savage story of the intersection of politics and human relationships, set in turbulent Northern Ireland.
Having abandoned Philadelphia for the life of an international nomad, Estrin Lancaster has a taste for hot spots. She now finds herself in Belfast, a city scarred by twenty years of ritualised violence.
As the former purveyor of his own bomb-disposal service, Farrell O’Phelan courts the company of destruction. Technically a Catholic, he shuns allegiance of any kind.
For these two, normal life is anathema; love is a trap. What ensues is an affair between two loners who are beset with a fear of domesticity and a hunger for devastation.
Lionel Shriver
Although Lionel Shriver has published many novels, a collection of essays, and a column in the Spectator since 2017, and her journalism has been featured in publications including the Guardian, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, she in no way wishes for the inclusion of this information to imply that she is more “intelligent” or “accomplished” than anyone else. The outdated meritocracy of intellectual achievement has made her a bestselling author multiple times and accorded her awards, including the Orange Prize, but she accepts that all of these accidental accolades are basically meaningless. She lives in Portugal and Brooklyn, New York.
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Reviews for Ordinary Decent Criminals
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Disappointed. Having enjoyed several of Shriver's journalistic pieces and her feisty non-PC stance, I expected much from this, for me, first piece of her fiction. She seems to have channelled Northern Irish speech and mentality, supporting her defence of novelists' right to write about people other than themselves. Unfortunately, there seems to be no story, or at least I failed to find it. Stopped after 3 or 4 chapters.