So when human remains-suspected to be those of Tommy Burke, a former lover of both Brid and Evelyn-are discovered on an old farm, the village’s dark past begins to unravel. Collins hasn’t always been this overweight Brid Riordan, a mother of two, hasn’t always been an alcoholic and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn’t always felt that her life was a total waste.
The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama, and yet its inhabitants are troubled: Sergeant P.J.
“With its tale of provincial life, gimlet-eyed spinsters, and thwarted love…it feels almost like a Miss Marple mystery written by Colm Tóibín” ( The New York Times). It’s a discovery that threatens to decimate every memory and truth Carol shared with the man she once loved.From Graham Norton-the BAFTA Award–winning and hugely popular BBC America television host-comes a charming debut novel set in an idyllic Irish village where a bumbling investigator has to sort through decades of gossip and secrets to solve a mysterious crime. For women, love and unpaid caring duties are often an involuntary undertaking we are forced to perform.Ĭarol 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.Īs in all garden-variety watchable TV drama or compelling mainstream novel, there is a murder involved or, more precisely, a dead body. The ungoverned matter of care-giving and love is inextricable it is a civil duty demanded of half the world’s population. Norton paints a frank picture of the harrowing fatigue involved in caring. But her transition from teacher to stepmother drives a wedge between Declan and his children, Sally and Killian.Īfter Declan is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, Carol stops teaching and turns to full-time care of her partner.
A few years earlier, Declan’s wife Joan had mysteriously “abandoned her family” – though rumours still circulate. Carol Crottie has found a second chance at love with her student’s father, Declan Barry.
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