eAudiobook
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Holding
Year
2017
Language
ENGLISH
Duration
7h 26m 12s
Publication Information
Simon & Schuster Audio
Summary
A New York Times Bestseller From Graham Norton-the BAFTA-award-winning and hugely popular BBC America television host-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, and yet its inhabitants are troubled: Sergeant P.J. Collins hasn't always been this overweight; Brid Riordan, a mother of two, 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-suspected to be those of Tommy Burke, a former lover of both Brid and Evelyn-are discovered on an old farm, the village's dark past begins to unravel. As a frustrated P.J. struggles to solve a genuine case for the first time in his professional life, he unearths a community's worth of anger and resentments, secrets and regrets. Darkly comic, at times profoundly sad, and inviting because of its tongue-in-cheek wit, Holding is a masterful debut. Graham Norton employs his acerbic humor to breathe life into a host of lovable characters, and explore-with searing honesty-the complexities and contradictions that make us human.