![]() ![]() Patricia takes the long train journey to visit him on his farm. Edward is the only possible contender – Irish farmers could learn a lot from Edward about how to write a letter to a potential love interest. When at last her ma dies, Patricia, still single and over thirty, embarks on a plan to find love and answers a letter in the lonely hearts column of a farmer’s gazette. Patricia was the dutiful daughter who gave up her freedom to care for her invalid mother. A surprise inheritance sends her to a remote farmhouse by a ruined castle – was this where Elizabeth was born? The story switches between Elizabeth’s search for clues and her mother Patricia’s story. In the old family house that is now hers, Elizabeth finds a bundle of love letters written by the father she never knew. ![]() Elizabeth must fly back to where she grew up, not very happily, to sort out her mother’s estate. Elizabeth is a divorced academic living in her New York apartment with a teenage son when her mother dies suddenly in Ireland. ![]() And the premise of the story is interesting enough to make you want to pick it up too. I’ve had numerous recommendations to read A Keeper, the much talked about second novel by Graham Norton. ![]()
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