Book Review: Holding by Graham Norton
Title: Holding Author: Graham Norton Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Expected: 6th October, 2016 ISBN: 9781444791990 Link: https://www.hodder.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781444791990 Blurb: Graham Norton's masterful debut is an intelligently crafted story of love, secrets and loss. The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama; and yet its inhabitants are troubled. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn't always been this overweight; mother of two Brid Riordan hasn't always been an alcoholic; and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn't always felt that her life was a total waste. So when human remains are discovered on an old farm, suspected to be that of Tommy Burke - a former love of both Brid and Evelyn - the village's dark past begins to unravel. As the frustrated PJ 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. Darkly comic, touching and at ti...