When at last her ma dies, Patricia, still single and over thirty, embarks on a plan to find love and answers a letter in the lonely hearts column of a farmer’s gazette. Patricia was the dutiful daughter who gave up her freedom to care for her invalid mother.
A surprise inheritance sends her to a remote farmhouse by a ruined castle – was this where Elizabeth was born? The story switches between Elizabeth’s search for clues and her mother Patricia’s story.
In the old family house that is now hers, Elizabeth finds a bundle of love letters written by the father she never knew. Elizabeth must fly back to where she grew up, not very happily, to sort out her mother’s estate. Elizabeth is a divorced academic living in her New York apartment with a teenage son when her mother dies suddenly in Ireland. And the premise of the story is interesting enough to make you want to pick it up too.
I’ve had numerous recommendations to read A Keeper, the much talked about second novel by Graham Norton.
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