A Keeper
Graham Norton
2018
3/5 stars
When Elizabeth returns to her Irish hometown to sort out her deceased mother's effects, she finds letters that lead to secrets she never expected of her mother.
This is a mostly-well written novel, but the events are too unbelievable and the "surprises" are never quite that. I was hooked in the beginning, but as the improbabilities stacked up and the characters didn't develop, it lost it's emotional appeal and charm. The novel also suffered from a superfluity of "major" events, watering the main story. I wouldn't be tempted to read another book by Norton.
(A note on the audio book: The author reads it himself and, while not terrible, is not a pleasure to hear with his too-fast speech and less-than-convincing voices.)
