Frankie The Sunday Times Bestseller

Description

Author: Graham Norton
Format: Trade Paperback C Format
Publication date: 12/09/2024
Imprint: CORONET BOOKS
ISBN: 9781529391459

The brand-new novel from million-copy bestseller and national treasure Graham Norton



‘A magnificent novelist’ GUARDIAN

‘What a storyteller!’ ELIZABETH DAY

‘His writing is evocative and perfect’ MARIAN KEYES



Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take centre stage – after all, life had already judged her harshly. Now old, Frankie finds it easier to forget the life that came before.



Then Damian, a young Irish carer, arrives at her London flat, there to keep an eye on her as she recovers from a fall. A memory is sparked, and the past crackles into life as Damian listens to the story Frankie has kept stored away all these years.



Travelling from post-war Ireland to 1960s New York – a city full of art, larger than life characters and turmoil – Frankie shares a world in which friendship and chance encounters collide. A place where, for a while, life blazes with an intensity that can’t last but will perhaps live on in other ways and in other people.



Frankie is a dazzling, decades-sweeping novel about love, bravery and what it means to live a significant life.