Home Stretch- Graham Norton -Contemporary Fiction
In a suburb of Cork there has been a terrible accident and three young people have died.
The driver of the vehicle,Connor, has been given a suspended sentence but just can't face
the people he knows and loves and so takes himself to England as part of a building crew.
There he comes out, moves to London and starts to find a life for himself having only ever
sent the one postcard home. The effect on the community reaches long but life goes on
and things get back to a normal of sorts. By twenty five years on Conno ris now living in
New York with his partner Tim. A story of love and hope and how people and times change.
I quickly got into this as I did with Graham's other novels as there is an ease of writing
and although quite a few characters they come across incredibly well. You could well
imagine being in an Irish bar with many of them.; It made me slightly wistful, a sense of
what could have been or should have been perhaps, in a very different way. A story of
love between family members and wrong being put right of a sort. Dans wedding speech
had me pretty much in tears, and then reading after the final sentence “ Hodder and
Stoughton…was founded by two young men who saw that the rise in literacy would
break cultural barriers” OMG. One stunning read and one I will remember.
A treasure of a book.
For more reviews please see my blog http://nickibookblog.blogspot.co.uk/
or follow me on Twitter@nickisbookblog
Comments
Post a Comment