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.

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