Moving between 1980s small town Ireland and New York, Home Stretch is a searing story of responsibility, blame and a young man’s quest for oblivion, from the author of A Keeper.
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Compelling new novel of stigma and secrecy from Sunday Times bestseller
It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for the wedding of two of its young inhabitants. They're barely adults, not so long out of school and still part of the same set of friends they've grown up with. As the friends head home from the beach that last night before the wedding, there is a car accident. Three survive the crash but three are killed. And the reverberations are felt throughout the small town.
Connor, the young driver of the car, lives. But staying among the angry and the mourning is almost as hard as living with the shame, and so he leaves the only place he knows for another life. Travelling first to Liverpool, then London, by the noughties he has made a home - of sorts - for himself in New York. The city provides shelter and possibility for the displaced, somewhere Connor can forget his past and forge a new life.
But the secrets, the unspoken longings and regrets that have come to haunt those left behind will not be silenced. And before long, Connor will have to meet his past.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781529339055
Number of pages: 320
Dimensions: 222 x 156 mm
Graham Norton’s third novel opens up with an accident that tears apart a small community, It is about how the tragedy affects so many lives and the secret of what really happened surfaces many years later to change... More
Another excellent fictional offering from the ever lovely Graham Norton. Starting in a small town in Ireland in 1987, this is a thought provoking and heart breaking story. Starting with a horrific traffic accident, we... More
I read and enjoyed Graham Norton's last book and was delighted to receive an ARC of his latest novel from the publisher and Netgalley.I wasn't disappointed in this book.Set in a small town in West Cork from... More
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