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Carregando... Holdingde Graham Norton
   Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) ilkjen | Feb 20, 2024 |  This time I am reading it for discussion with my U3A Crime Fiction group. This is the first book we are reading this year, and I think they will enjoy it. We will be basing some of our discussion on some questions listed at The Reading Agency (listed on Amazon) Duneen is a quiet place, far enough from the big towns to have kept its own rhythms. Its residents include cast down 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 half lived secrets and seething rivalries to come to light and this silent, once innocent and repressed-seeming town is revealed to have a much darker, hungrier undertow The other resources that I've found which we may use in our discussion are some short You Tube videos: Graham Norton reading an extract Character introduction : Evelyn Ross Both of these videos comment on the significance of the novel's title. My rating: 4.5 I've also read 4.6, HOME STRETCH (  ) smik | Feb 10, 2024 |  ) thesmellofbooks | Dec 27, 2023 |  ) therebelprince | Oct 24, 2023 | ) Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |
 With a real affection for its flawed characters and their back stories, Holding is at times heartbreaking, at others snortingly funny.
"From Graham Norton, the BAFTA-award-winning Irish television host and author of the "sparkling and impish" (Daily Mail) memoirs The Life and Loves of a He Devil and So Me, comes a charming debut novel set in an idyllic Irish village where a bumbling investigator has to sort through decades of gossip and secrets to solve a mysterious crime. The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama but when human remains are discovered on an old farm, suspected to be that of Tommy Burke--a former lover of two different inhabitants--the village's dark past begins to unravel. As the frustrated sergeant PJ Collins struggles to solve a genuine case for the first time in his life, he unearths a community's worth of anger and resentments, secrets and regret. In this darkly comic, touching, and at times heartbreaking novel, perfect for fans of J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy, Graham Norton employs his acerbic wit to breathe life into a host of loveable characters, and explore--with searing honesty--the complexities and contradictions that make us human"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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