Forever Home: THIS AUTUMN'S MUST-READ NOVEL FROM GRAHAM NORTON
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Forever Home: THIS AUTUMN'S MUST-READ NOVEL FROM GRAHAM NORTON
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Sosuke Natsukawa's international bestseller, translated from Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai, is a story for those for whom books are so much more than words on paper. Let’s just say Norton is really good at undemanding, popular fiction with emotional weight and something to say about the vagaries of contemporary life. So with this as a background, I leapt into Forever Home, which follows Carol, her second relationship with Declan (and his children), but is formulated in the shadow of his first marriage - where did the wife go, and why would she leave her children? Graham William Walker is an Irish actor, comedian, television presenter and columnist, known by his stage name Graham Norton.
Once you accept this is what it is, it’s a very enjoyable read, full of warmth and humour, and an excellent character in Moira.There’s some really nice stuff here about the ache of watching someone rapidly decline, childhood trauma and the suffocating meaning-of-life decisions about family, relationships and work. Forever Home has a wide-range of characters that are diverse and neighborhood antics similar to happenings in our everyday lives almost anywhere. A new relationship gets the local tongues wagging when Carol moves in with Declan a much older man and people wonder what the attraction is. It seems there are secrets in Declan’s past, strange rumours that were never confronted and suddenly the house they shared takes on a more sinister significance.
Carol’s mother and father are naturally concerned for their daughter and try to help her in anyway they can. The style of the story becomes more comedic (and tragic at the same time) with the pace of the writing picking up too. Born in Clondalkin, a suburb of Dublin, Norton's first big TV appearance was as Father Noel Furlong on Channel 4's Father Ted in the early 1990s. It's wonderfully funny, yet a bit sad, filled with secrets galore, twists and turns in family dynamics and to what lengths a family will go to protect each other.We are still in Ireland for this plot but there is a huge appeal to these sensitively drawn characters. The main issue at hand within this novel is that of elder financial abuse, and Norton shows the chilling ease at which this can be accomplished with little to no intervention from authorities. It started out strong and went on a little too long and kind of lost its way a bit some, but overall I enjoy It. Forever Home’ is another excellent read and I found it so difficult not to read from start to finish in one sitting.
He then secured a prime time slot on Channel 4 with his chat shows So Graham Norton and V Graham Norton.
I really enjoy the writing of Graham Norton whether is be his biographies or perhaps more surprising his novels.
This one actually probably most resembles Holding (which I would consider his weakest) in the sense that it is effectively a dark comedy, a caper, veering into farce at times. He’s seemingly revelling in a second chance at a relationship, too, given the wife of his two adult children mysteriously disappeared years ago. It makes the motivations and actions of the characters in the third act feel inauthentic murder-mystery staples. This novel, about a family often on the edge, is set in a small town in Ireland and narrated by the author, Graham Norton.A winning mix of family drama and comedy crime caper… you may well find yourself reading it in one sitting. Even when they are behaving despicably there is a warmth to the writing that reminds us that life, people, their motivations and decisions are never simple, never black and white. This sets the locals gossiping until Declan becomes too ill to live at home, and is moved into a care home.
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