Through long and tiring interludes, she finds clues to her birth, family, and mysteries of the past. Zach is visiting him while Elizabeth handles final inheritance matters. They now live on opposite coasts - Elizabeth in New York, where she’s a professor at Hunter College, Elliott in California, where he lives in relative indifference to his ex-wife and son. In the present, Elizabeth is a divorced single mother to 17-year-old Zach, and her marriage to his father, Elliott, ended badly. However, he continues to send her marvelous, expressive letters, and she continues to visit, which is how everything falls apart - or does it start coming together? When Patricia takes the train to visit him, she finds a terrified man who can barely utter a single word. After her mother Patricia’s death, Elizabeth Keane is settling her affairs in Buncarragh, Ireland when she finds a small packet of letters that propel her back to the 1970s, when Patricia was a lonely woman seeking love in the the Farmers’ Gazette, where she places an ad looking for a husband.Īmid the usual rude, crude, and outlandish replies is a sincere letter from Edward Foley, who lives in Cork. Graham Norton’s second novel, A Keeper, moves from Holding’s drama in a small Irish town to domestic terror in the harsh Irish countryside.
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