Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan

When we look beyond the headlines, everyone has a story to tell

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 across a scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents loved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and 'bad apples': the Greens.