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By: Graham Norton
Narrated by: Graham Norton
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BAFTA award-winning comedian Graham Norton lends his charming Irish lilt to the narration of his skillfully paced debut novel. With an atmospheric setting and characters that you quickly warm to, it's a vividly written slice of life in Duneen.

Graham Norton's masterful debut is an intelligently crafted story of love, secrets and loss.

The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama, and yet its inhabitants are troubled. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn't always been this overweight; mother of two Brid Riordan hasn't always been an alcoholic; and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn't always felt that her life was a total waste.

So when human remains are discovered on an old farm, suspected to be that of Tommy Burke - a former love of both Brid and Evelyn - the village's dark past begins to unravel. As the frustrated PJ struggles to solve a genuine case for the first time in his life, he unearths a community's worth of anger and resentments, secrets and regret.

Darkly comic, touching and at times profoundly sad. Graham Norton employs his acerbic wit to breathe life into a host of loveable characters and explore - with searing honesty - the complexities and contradictions that make us human.

©2016 Graham Norton (P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Village Fiction Exciting Feel-Good Funny Witty
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Thank you GN you’re full of surprises! I especially like your tone of voice, you had me giggling throughout! 😂

Get ready to laugh

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I expected a comedy but was more delighted with the well developed and lovely characters and the very real feelings described. A superior novel.

Touching very human drama that makes you smile

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Loved it. Ended too soon for me. i want to hear more of PJ.

Thanks Graham!

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Quirky story. GN great soh sprinkled through out.
I loved his narration and he captured a small Irish village so well. I look forward to the second book and more.
Just one thing not long enough.

very enjoyable

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i loved it just like a good bed time atory graham is so enjoyable to listen to, a great out come

a grest read

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