Holding
A Novel
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Holding
Narrateur(s):
Graham Norton
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Narrateur(s):
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Graham Norton
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Graham Norton
À propos de cet audio
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. “With its tale of provincial life, gimlet-eyed spinsters, and thwarted love…it feels almost like a Miss Marple mystery written by Colm Tóibín” (The New York Times).
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 “especially inviting because of its tongue-in-cheek wit” (Kirkus Reviews), 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.
Loved it!!
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Pleasantly surprised!
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When I read the genre tags last week, Cozy and Crime & Mystery, that's what I was expecting. It is neither of those. Much too harsh, and in some parts jarring and tragic, to be a cozy. It doesn't fit into Crime & Mystery either.
It's a novel, there is a crime, most of the main characters are interesting.... There were elements of the character descriptions that I didn't like at all... especially PJ. I felt that character deserved more than always described in degrading comparisons, which is yet another way that this doesn't fit into the genres mentioned; I like a "flawed or haunted" detective, but this was something else.
Also, the female characters deserved more strengths; they seemed two-dimensional to me, too flat, too emotion-based... Anything positive seemed like an afterthought.
Not What I Expected
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Fun and unpredictable.
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So reliably good
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