There is nothing here for her, she wonders if there ever was. A KeeperĮlizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, intent only on wrapping up that dismal part of her life.
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as this winning tale shows, sometimes things work themselves out in ways no one could have imagined.The first book to be featured on the Sara Cox Radio 2 Book Club will be A Keeper, the brilliant second novel by Graham Norton. Graham Norton employs his acerbic humor to breathe life into a host of lovable characters, and explore-with searing honesty-the complexities and contradictions that make us human. Darkly comic, at times profoundly sad, and "especially inviting because of its tongue-in-cheek wit" (Kirkus Reviews), Holding is a masterful debut. struggles to solve a genuine case for the first time in his professional life, he unearths a community's worth of anger and resentments, secrets and regrets. So when human remains-suspected to be those of Tommy Burke, a former lover of both Brid and Evelyn-are discovered on an old farm, the village's dark past begins to unravel. Collins hasn't always been this overweight Brid Riordan, a mother of two, hasn't always been an alcoholic and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn't always felt that her life was a total waste. "With its tale of provincial life, gimlet-eyed spinsters, and thwarted feels almost like a Miss Marple mystery written by Colm Tóibín" (The New York Times).The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama, and yet its inhabitants are troubled: Sergeant P.J. About the Book "Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 by Hodder & Stoughton"-Title page verso.īook Synopsis A New York Times bestseller From Graham Norton-the BAFTA Award-winning and hugely popular BBC America television host-comes a charming debut novel set in an idyllic Irish village where a bumbling investigator has to sort through decades of gossip and secrets to solve a mysterious crime.
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