Holding

Author(s): Graham Norton

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Duneen is a quiet place, far enough from the big towns to have kept its own rhythms. Its residents include castdown policeman PJ who lives a lonely, uneventful life punctuated only by the next meal - until now; the beautiful and mysterious family of three spinster sisters each with their own secrets and sorrows; and of course, the town's gossip who think she knows the answers. When a grim discovery is made on a building site up by the old school, it becomes the catalyst for long buried secrets and rivalries to come to light and this silent, once innocent and repressed-seeming town is revealed to have a much darker, hungrier undertow...

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Poised and perceptive -- Louis Wise The Sunday Times

Deeply accomplished, with brilliantly observed, entertaining characters and an atmospheric setting --Good Housekeeping

Heartwarming and observant Stylist Strenuously charming...surprisingly tender -- Clare Allfree Metro

One of the more authentic debuts I've read in recent years... A fine novel. -- John Boyne The Irish Times

An undercurrent of black comedy accompanies the ripples that ensue - but with a pathos that makes this deftly plotted story as moving as it is compelling. Sunday Mirror

charming...thoughtfully done...highly enjoyable. --The Guardian

Full of emotion and tense moments. You will be gripped from the first page. --Woman's Own

Graham is one of the UK's most treasured comedians and presenters. Born in Clondalkin, a suburb of Dublin, Norton's first big TV appearance was as Father Noel Furlong on Channel 4's Father Ted in the early 1990s. He then secured a prime time slot on Channel 4 with his chat shows So Graham Norton and V Graham Norton. Known for his quick wit and flamboyant style Graham began hosting a variety of talent shows on BBC One from Strictly Dance Fever and Andrew Lloyd Webber's How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? to The Eurovision Song Contest and BAFTAs. Graham was soon approached by the BBC to front his own self-titled chat show The Graham Norton Show in 2007. Graham Norton has won 7 BAFTAs for Best Entertainment Performance, and Best Entertainment Programme. He presents a show on BBC Radio 2 every Saturday and also writes, as Agony Aunt, weekly in a column for The Telegraph.

General Fields

  • : 9781444792034
  • : Hodder & Stoughton
  • : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
  • : 0.42
  • : January 2016
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 320
  • : very good
  • : very good
  • : 823.92
  • : en
  • : 1016
  • : Paperback
  • : Graham Norton