It’s sometimes oppressive, sometimes glorious, sometimes eerie too. The descriptions are not over done and still the reader is fully immersed in the Irish country side. The setting: I loved the Irish setting and the atmosphere the author provides. Three cheers for Graham Norton who’s apparently just as entertaining on paper as he is on the screen. In this dual timeline tale, Graham Norton takes us on a journey through the lives, loves and losses of two women a mother and daughter who never realised just how similar they actually were. Publisher: Atria Books (August 13, 2019).She has no sense of where she is going, only that she must keep on.Ī Keeper confirms Graham Norton’s status as a fresh and evocative literary voice, and illustrates his clear-eyed understanding of human nature and its darkest flaws. But within this mess, she discovers a small stash of letters-and ultimately, the truth.įorty years earlier, a young woman stumbles from a remote stone house, the night quiet except for the constant wind that encircles her as she hurries deeper into the darkness away from the cliffs and the sea. Her childhood home is packed solid with useless junk, her mother’s presence already fading. When Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, she’s focused only on saying goodbye to that dark and dismal part of her life.

From Graham Norton-the BAFTA-award-winning Irish television host and author of the “charming debut novel” ( New York Journal of Books) Holding, a masterly and haunting tale of secrets and ill-fated love follows a young woman who returns to Ireland after her mother’s death and unravels the identity of her father.

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