Forever Home: THIS SUMMER'S MUST-READ NOVEL FROM GRAHAM NORTON

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Carol frets: “It wasn’t clear what role she could play in his life now.” As so often for women, we are asked to sublimate our needs to those of others – children, to elderly parents, to partners.

Forever Home by Graham Norton: the intricacies of family life Forever Home by Graham Norton: the intricacies of family life

SHAPIRO: This novel, "Forever Home," unfolds from so many different perspectives. We see chapters through the eyes of different narrators. Was there one character who was your inroad to this story?

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SHAPIRO: Your life is much more cosmopolitan than your fiction. Your novels tend to focus on small-town experiences. And so as you fly from London to New York to Los Angeles, do you ever long for the kind of parochial life that you write about - minus the murder?

Forever Home – HarperCollins Forever Home – HarperCollins

What Moira and Carol discover is things are done for reasons beyond anyone's control. Sometimes to save a family you must lose the family no matter how much you love them. The blurb reads: “Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son now grown up. The much-loved chatshow host made a smooth landing in the literary sphere when he published his first novel, Holding, in 2016. A Keeper (2018) and Home Stretch (2020) followed, cementing his place as a comic chronicler of the idiosyncrasies and strange goings on of small-town Ireland. His latest, Forever Home, sees him in familiar territory, with a mystery set in the fictional town of Ballytoor.SHAPIRO: It's not disclosures about the inner life. It is just a sort of, like, filling the air with sounds.