A Keeper: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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She's a single mother raising her 17 year old son and dealing with the fall out of her marriage still. While it took Margaret Mitchell 10 years to compose 'Gone With the Wind', and 12 years for Victor Hugo to finish 'Les Miserables', Graham Norton appears to have thrown this together over the course of a rainy Saturday afternoon and published it the following Monday without any further thought or attention. Graham Norton has won 9 BAFTAs for Best Entertainment Performance, and Best Entertainment Programme. This was powerful storytelling, with depth of both character and plot, the threads joining both eras all strongly interwoven.

Alternating masterfully between “Now” and “Then,” from Convent Hill in the town of Buncarragh just outside Kilkenny, Ireland to the remote Castle House by the sea near West Cork, Graham Norton spins the tale of Patricia Keane and her daughter Elizabeth. Alternating between "Now" and "Then" storylines, the backstory is revealed, and we see the connection between "now" and "then". I'd have given up after the third chapter, but - having read some excellent reviews here on Goodreads - I felt sure the story would pick up towards the end. He is visiting his gay father, Elliot in California, a man he has seen little of since his parents acrimonious split. While trying to figure out the source of the letters, Elizabeth is contacted by her mother's attorney.I maybe at one point while reading this ARC said are you serious and then started muttering to myself about just DNFing it. There is always a soft and homely humour in the background of his books, and his traditional characters shine through with personality. The next chapter is the "Now" and we meet a young single mom who has just learned her mom has passed. Elizabeth thinks she knows her mother inside out, but her confidence in this takes a huge knock when she discovers a pile of ribbon wrapped letters in the back of Patricia's wardrobe.

who knows what drives people to try to set things right ,and instead making it a kidnapping nightmare. He presents The Graham Norton Show on BBC1, a show on BBC Radio 2 every Saturday, and is a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race UK. There was a creepy ‘Rebecca’ feel to Patricia’s sections, the isolated house perched alongside a ruined castle on the wild coast – Ireland, not Cornwall, but still – a strange man, a crazed old woman, and secrets galore!This is a hugely compelling family drama, of mothers whose children are everything, and of the darkness, heartbreak, intrigue, mental health issues and secrets that bubble within the facade of families, past and present. She was a chess piece to move around while he focused on what he wanted the story to be about, Patricia.