A Keeper: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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I did feel hatred for Edwards mother, yes he was a mummy's boy but why did she have a hold over him? Norton cleverly mirrors the process of grieving in Patricia and Elizabeth’s stories, as the two women each mourn the passing of their mother.

He then secured a prime time slot on Channel 4 with his chat shows So Graham Norton and V Graham Norton . A Keeper does not have the humour of his first story, but it does give a clear picture of rural Irish life contrasted with the heroine’s present life in New York. The two treads of the story, current and historical , presented in parallel are an easy read and except for one element the plot is totally acceptable: where are Mary's relatives?

After enjoying the TV drama, “holding,” based on Graham Norton’s first book, I was pleased to discover his writing has continued.

Maybe because she had been away for so long, but there's no mention of her having an accent or how her relatives sound, etc. Alternating between "Now" and "Then" storylines, the backstory is revealed, and we see the connection between "now" and "then". I wasn't bored for one minute, I thought the story unfolded very well , with new snippets of information added all the time.

Compelling, well-written with a great eye for human foibles it is undoubtedly highly readable but for me lacked substance and there isn’t much more to the novel than what becomes pretty obvious early on. The morning after arriving at her mother's home, she discovers letters from an Edward Foley hidden in the armoire; could this be her father? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.