Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. To order a copy for £17.20 go to or call 03. With Norton’s wry sense of humour throughout, A Keeper is a gripping, thoughtful tale about the search for identity, belonging and self-possession.Ī Keeper by Graham Norton is published by Coronet (£20). These are women whose roles as daughters and mothers are messy and complicated. As for Elizabeth, “back in New York, she had felt guilty for not missing her mother more, but in this house she felt her absence like a physical ache”. 2019 by Graham Norton (Author) 21,102 ratings Editors' pick Hand selected reads See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 4.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 18.99 32 Used from 1.17 3 New from 16.19 2 Collectible from 14.

For Patricia, “the dead don’t vanish, they leave a negative of themselves stamped on the world”. A Keeper: The Sunday Times Bestseller Paperback 8 Aug. Norton cleverly mirrors the process of grieving in Patricia and Elizabeth’s stories, as the two women each mourn the passing of their mother. A Keeper A Novel By Graham Norton Trade Paperback LIST PRICE 17. The sense of Patricia’s isolation as a single parent in 1970s rural Ireland is sensitively handled, while in both the present and past sections, the politics of small-town communities are captured with insight and precision. Elizabeth’s loneliness is ever present though never overplayed, and her difficult ties with her extended family oscillate between frustration, anger, regret and resignation. Buy A Keeper by Graham Norton from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. Norton is perceptive on the nuances of relationships.

To describe too much of what transpires between Patricia and the Foleys would be to spoil an intricately constructed tale, but it is one in which menace and mystery abound, tackling themes of grief, isolation and a sociopathic determination fuelled by loss and hope. Nortons debut novel, Holding, proved him a deft, sensitive chronicler of human lives and A Keeper cements his talent. Urged on by a friend she answers a lonely hearts ad in the Farmers’ Journal and meets Edward Foley, a taciturn farmer who lives in an isolated cottage with his domineering mother.

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