Between the Covers Book Club discusses the Book "Holding" by Graham Norton

Monday March 31st 2025 02:00 pm - Monday March 31st 2025 03:00 pm
Hartley Public Library, 91 1st St. SE, Hartley, Iowa

Between the Covers Book Club discusses the book, "Holding" by Graham Norton at the library @ 2pm

 

Feel free to Join us - Stop in pick up a copy of the book and/or visit with the Librarian about the program!  We welcome new members to the club & we'd love for you to join us. 

 

Holding: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.