I maybe at one point while reading this ARC said are you serious and then started muttering to myself about just DNFing it.

She meets with her mother's best friend, Rosemary O'Shea, and those who knew her father and her griefstricken and disturbed grandmother. 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.This is the 2nd novel I have read by Graham Norton and once again I am so impressed with his writing. It is a mesmerizing read and so unexpected ,had no idea what would happen and it was all alarming and upsetting and yet i could not put it down. Forty years earlier, a young woman stumbles from a remote stone house, the night quiet except for the constant wind that encircles her as she hurries deeper into the darkness away from the cliffs and the sea. As she is sorting through the effects of a lifetime, she discovers a box of letters that reveal her mother as Elizabeth never imagined.

I've read a previous book by Graham Norton, - 'Holding' - and enjoyed it, which is why I wanted to pick this one up too. Her mother passed away and it is now up to Elizabeth to sort through her things and close up the house. From the bestselling author of Holding comes another sweeping, evocative tale set on the coast of Ireland. It's a bit of a roller coaster of discoveries and reveals, balancing between darkness and kindness all the way.Final de ilginçti böyle bir son düşünmemiştim aslında yazarın başarısı da bu ; okuyucuya fırsat vermiyor ne olabileceği hakkında düşünmesine. He presents The Graham Norton Show on BBC1, a show on Virgin Radio every weekend, and is a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race UK. The snarky ex-husband didn't go over well either and actually just disappeared out of the end of the story, never to be heard from again. Whilst I expected Elizabeth’s discovery of her origins to be revelatory and of momentous importance to her the fairly muted, and abrupt ending, proved a bit of a damp squib. I just think that there were too many things happening and that Norton didn't make sure that both POVs worked well.

Finding that she has time on her own she decides to delve into her mother's past and the book switches between Elizabeth and Patrica's stories respectively. Compelling, well-written with a great eye for human foibles it is undoubtedly highly readable but for me lacked substance and there isn’t much more to the novel than what becomes pretty obvious early on.Alternating between "Now" and "Then" storylines, the backstory is revealed, and we see the connection between "now" and "then". 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? IRISH INDEPENDENT'It's a sad and lovely book, brimful of tenderness and compassion, where the revelations of the past upturn the perceptions of the present. She has very little there, unpleasant memories, items of small value, but all that changes when she finds a small stash of letters telling a story that she was never told. It's been a long time since Elizabeth has been in the town that that she grew up in and being back fills her with a mixture of emotions.