A Keeper: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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She has very little there, unpleasant memories, items of small value, but all that changes when she finds a small stash of letters telling a story that she was never told. IRISH INDEPENDENT 'It's a sad and lovely book, brimful of tenderness and compassion, where the revelations of the past upturn the perceptions of the present.

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It is not tense or a thriller by any means, but it does hold a great deal of dark mystery and sadness. And when Elizabeth finds she has been left a seaside cottage in the will, the quest into the truth of her origins begins. Stumbling across a small wooden box of letters penned to her mother in the early Seventies in response to a lonely hearts advert by the man she has been told is her father it provides her first opportunity to learn more about Edward Foley. Loneliness features in the lives of several of the characters but Elizabeth’s life is more positive at the end of the book.

The POVs between Patricia and Elizabeth and the mini POVs for Edward and Rosemary just didn't hang together well. I don't like to do that with NetGalley reads though, so I may have to rethink on that in the future. He is the host of the comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show and the BBC commentator of the Eurovision Song Contest. When it comes to relationships, there is not much in the way of cheering fare, with disappointment, intrigue, darkness, and stoicism from two different eras.

There was a creepy ‘Rebecca’ feel to Patricia’s sections, the isolated house perched alongside a ruined castle on the wild coast – Ireland, not Cornwall, but still – a strange man, a crazed old woman, and secrets galore!