A Keeper: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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I wasn't bored for one minute, I thought the story unfolded very well , with new snippets of information added all the time. ANDREW O'HAGANFrom the bestselling author of HOLDING comes a masterly tale of secrets and ill-fated loves set on the coast of Ireland. From the bestselling author of HOLDING comes another sweeping, evocative tale set on the coast of Ireland. When it comes to relationships, there is not much in the way of cheering fare, with disappointment, intrigue, darkness, and stoicism from two different eras.

She meets with her mother's best friend, Rosemary O'Shea, and those who knew her father and her griefstricken and disturbed grandmother. We know from the first page (the chapter known as "Before") that a POV character is in great distress after some type of turbulent event in which an official vehicle has arrived. SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A compelling and moving story, expertly told, that will draw you in and keep you in its grip until the last page. I've not yet read Norton's first novel but it got good reviews, so when I was given the chance to read this as an ARC, I went for it. Her mother passed away and it is now up to Elizabeth to sort through her things and close up the house.years earlier, a young woman stumbles from a remote stone house, the night quiet but for the tireless wind that circles her as she hurries further into the darkness away from the cliffs and the sea. The story is tight, the writing is sensitive, the plot is gripping - this book has all the elements of a great read.

She comes across some handwritten letters to her mother from a man by the name of Edward Foley in Cork.His first novel I loved so when I seen he had this new novel coming out, I just had to get myself a copy. It's a sad and lovely book, brimful of tenderness and compassion, where the revelations of the past upturn the perceptions of the present. In the wardrobe she finds a box with some letters that appear to be written by her father, a man whom she has never known, who she believes passed away when she was but an infant. His characters have a cardboard quality and he has jammed the plot with events that never quite come together in a believable way. 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?