A Keeper: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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I don't like to do that with NetGalley reads though, so I may have to rethink on that in the future.

As she clears out her mother’s personal effects, she discovers a bundle of letters that appear to be from the father she has never known. if you like real life drama with a hint of dark humour and some brilliant characters please pick this up and share with me. The two treads of the story, current and historical , presented in parallel are an easy read and except for one element the plot is totally acceptable: where are Mary's relatives?

the story of Elizabeth coming back to ireland and discovering truths about her own past and family gripped me tight. She is dealing w/the loss of her mom and also with her teen son, whose situation is complicated because she is raising him alone. The book goes back and forward in time telling the story from both Elizabeth in present day and her mother Patricia in the past. A Keeper does not have the humour of his first story, but it does give a clear picture of rural Irish life contrasted with the heroine’s present life in New York. I did feel hatred for Edwards mother, yes he was a mummy's boy but why did she have a hold over him?

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). He then secured a prime time slot on Channel 4 with his chat shows So Graham Norton and V Graham Norton. Despite my reservations however A Keeper is engaging, well-written and wryly humorous and despite feeling Elizabeth’s character lacked depth I found it a very worthwhile read. This is where the story begins shifting back and forth between present day and the early 1970s, before Elizabeth was born.While I certainly understood Elizabeth's quest for information, I felt she was a fairly impulsive character. And when Elizabeth finds she has been left a seaside cottage in the will, the quest into the truth of her origins begins. The sense of Patricia’s isolation as a single parent in 1970s rural Ireland is sensitively handled, while in both the present and past sections, the politics of small-town communities are captured with insight and precision.