**An addictive literary thriller about a crime as shocking as it is commonplace** When Katie Straw's body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police are ready to write it off as a standard-issue female suicide. But the residents of the domestic violence shelter where Katie wor
A keeper: a novel
β Scribed by Graham Norton
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1982117788
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
F****rom Graham Nortonβthe BAFTA-award-winning Irish television host and author of the "charming debut novel" (New York Journal of Books) Holding, a masterly and haunting tale of secrets and ill-fated love follows a young woman who returns to Ireland after her mother's death and unravels the identity of her father.
When Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother's death, she's focused only on saying goodbye to that dark and dismal part of her life. Her childhood home is packed solid with useless junk, her mother's presence already fading. But within this mess, she discovers a small stash of lettersβand ultimately, the truth.
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. She has no sense of where she is going, only that she must keep on.
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