Forever Home: THIS AUTUMN'S MUST-READ NOVEL FROM GRAHAM NORTON

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There are plenty of references to the location - particularly in the phrases used by the characters. His story encompasses many poignant moments and serious themes interspersed with his trademark humour. Not to his young children, son Killan and daughter Sally, and not to the gossip mongers in the town in Ireland.

The relationship is met with disapproval from the locals, but Carol and Declan are determined to make it work.I loved the main character’s mother, Moira, and some of the side characters were entertaining as well. Settling in with one of his novels is akin to sitting down with an enormous cup of tea at the end of a very long day. With all the dramas that Carol has to go through (from small and tedious to horrific and chilling, or rather, freezing), with all the emotional bumps and bruises she suffers as she uncovers more and more of the dark and tragic past of her partner's family, this story is ultimately nothing but pure kindness and compassion, with a fair share of good-natured irony sprinkled here and there because come on, it's Graham Norton! I've had a soft spot for Graham Norton ever since his Father Ted days and have more recently enjoyed his novels along with his chat shows. A new relationship gets the local tongues wagging when Carol moves in with Declan a much older man and people wonder what the attraction is.

The main issue at hand within this novel is that of elder financial abuse, and Norton shows the chilling ease at which this can be accomplished with little to no intervention from authorities. I predict late success with the paperback, it has been longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and is a superb summer read. Declan was much older than Carol and neither his children, her parents or her son was too enamoured with their relationship. I received a complimentary digital copy of this novel from HarperVia/Harper Collins via Edelweiss at my request, for my own reading enjoyment and the writing of this review.Carol and Declan know their relationship is the talk of the town, but the gossip only serves to bring the couple closer. Sosuke Natsukawa's international bestseller, translated from Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai, is a story for those for whom books are so much more than words on paper. I rooted so much for the protagonist Carol who has to deal with all kinds of stuff—starting with some petty idle gossip because she is a school teacher in a small town, which makes her somewhat of a public figure, and ending with the unexpected darkness in Declan's past that she cannot even discuss with Declan himself. Norton’s previous publication, Home Stretch, is to some extent auto-fiction, concentrating as it does on a young man growing up gay under the restrictions of a society trammelled by strict adherence to the rule of the local priests.

And I could not but marvel at and admire Carol's mother Moira— an 80-year-old powerhouse of a woman. Two families living in a small-town in Ireland, with complicated ties, collide in the most interesting, over-the-top way. Neither family is excited about their relationship and the small town gossips can't understand why Carol would be into a man like Declan. The fictional town of Ballytoor is small and nearly everyone went to the same school; the one where Carol teaches. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).The arc I received was poorly presented, with no chapter breaks, nor, at times, paragraph breaks, so a fair bit of rereading took place, but this still did not detract from a great book. He then secured a prime time slot on Channel 4 with his chat shows So Graham Norton and V Graham Norton . From the first pages the story draws you in and it’s impossible to put down, a case of just one more page.