Holding: The dark and masterful debut novel from the bestselling author
Graham Norton
Oct 2016 · Hodder & Stoughton · Narrated by 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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Elaine Riches
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January 10, 2022
Would be five stars but it was over too soon, I prefer a long book. I also wondered about GN narrating it himself. but he was great and the voice for PJ reminded me of Connor in Normal People. I loved that PJ was the unlikely sex symbol in this!
Bernadette Nason
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January 24, 2018
Oh it was one of the best books I have read n listened jealousy deceit n funny also a true account of ireland in the country homes
About the author
Graham Norton has written four other novels, all Sunday Times bestsellers, in the UK and Ireland. His fiction writing has won him critical acclaim from across all media and the literary community. Holding won the An Post Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction. A Keeper was shortlisted for both the Specsavers Popular Fiction Award and the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction. Home Stretch won the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction and has been optioned for a major TV series. Holding was made into a high-profile ITV drama, directed by Kathy Burke, and Forever Home was shortlisted at the 2022 Irish Book Awards.
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