Book Review: A Keeper by Graham Norton

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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. 

Synopsis:

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. Her childhood home is packed solid with useless junk, her mother’s presence already fading. But within this mess, she discovers a small stash of letters—and ultimately, the truth.

Forty 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. She has no sense of where she is going, only that she must keep on.

A 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.

Review:

More family secrets, and the reader asking "how well DO we know our family members? what secrets have they hid"? Graham gives another twisting mystery that will leave you wondering why he didn't start writing fiction YEARS ago! As the story weaves back and forth, the reader has to try to decide who is telling the truth and where the lies remain to be unsealed. And what happens when they come to the light? It's a tale from a perfect Irish storyteller, and one not to take on vacation, as you'll be GLUED to its pages until you finish!

About the Author:

Graham Norton is the award-winning host of The Graham Norton Show, one of the most popular programs on BBC America. He is the author of the bestselling memoirs So Me and The Life and Loves of a He Devil. He lives in London. This is his second fictional novel, Holding was his first.