Forever Home
The warm, funny and twisty novel about family drama from the bestselling author of FRANKIE
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- 5,49 €
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- 5,49 €
Publisher Description
'Top-notch... full of warmth, comedy and dark secrets'
DAILY MIRROR
'Beautifully constructed with a twisty plot'
JO BRAND
'A winning mix of family drama and comedy crime caper'
HEAT
**Graham Norton's new novel Frankie is out now**
The dark comedy from the Sunday Times bestselling author Graham Norton
Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small Irish town. A second chance at love with the older Declan brings her unexpected happiness, but their romance sparks speculation: what does a woman like her see in a man like him? And what happened to his wife who abandoned him all those years ago?
The gossip only serves to bring them closer, but when Declan becomes ill, things fall apart. Carol is forced to leave their beloved home and return to her parents. Unwilling to see her daughter suffer, Carol's mother vows to get to the bottom of things. It seems there are secrets in Declan's past, and suddenly the house they shared takes on a more sinister significance...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Norton (Home Stretch) misses the mark in this blend of emotional family saga and questionable crime cover-up set in seaside Ireland. Divorced English teacher Carol Crottie, 48, found second love with Declan Barry, the father of one of her students, 10 years ago. Declan's early-onset dementia leads his two children—unhappily isolated Sally and greedy, self-serving Killian—to pack him off to a nursing home and sell his beloved house in fictional Ballytoor. Carol's parents, owners of a successful café chain, use a shell company to secretly buy the house from Sally and Killian, but then Carol and her imposing mother, Moira, discover a body in a basement freezer. They assume it's the corpse of Joan, Declan's wife, who'd left suddenly years before. When Joan shows up and clearly knows more than she's telling, Moira concocts a series of schemes to get to the truth and avoid alerting the police, ostensibly to spare Declan from charges he can't defend. The family dramas, from Killian's unease with becoming a father with his husband to Carol's regression to adolescent frustration in the face of her parents' steamrollering, are evocatively rendered, but the oddly downplayed central traumas clash with the mildly humorous tone. Despite its zany plot, this is more limp than madcap.
