Holding
Author(s): Graham Norton
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
General Fields
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- : Hodder & Stoughton
- : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- : 0.42
- : 01 January 2016
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 320
- : 1016
- : Paperback
- : Graham Norton
