Frankie, Graham Norton
Frankie, Graham Norton
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Frankie
A Novel

Author: Graham Norton

Narrator: Graham Norton

Unabridged: 9 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperVia

Published: 01/14/2025

Synopsis

""Warm and wise, Frankie is a woman worth getting to know.""—Bonnie Garmus, New York Times-bestselling author of Lessons in ChemistryFrom the internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show, a dazzling and decades-sweeping story about love, bravery, and what it means to live a significant life.Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take center 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 caretaker, 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.Traveling 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.

About Graham Norton

Graham Norton is the award-winning host of The Graham Norton Show, one of the most popular programs on BBC America. He is the author of the novels Holding, A Keeper, Home Stretch, Forever Home, and Frankie, as well as the bestselling memoirs So Me and The Life and Loves of a He Devil. He lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Aoife on October 07, 2024

This was such an enjoyable piece of escapism, written in Graham Norton's inimitable, intelligent, empathetic style. While more ambitious than some of his other novels, it loses none of its warmth in the process. Frankie is a protagonist for the ages. We meet her as an elderly woman being cared for by......more

Goodreads review by Maddy on August 14, 2024

Although I love watching Graham Norton on television, I wasn’t sure how he would be writing a novel. I needn’t have worried – the story was wonderful – drawing on his knowledge as an Irish man in London. The story is witty, and insightfully told. When the elderly but very independent Frankie has a fa......more

Goodreads review by Lara on August 15, 2024

I loved the concept of this book! An older woman sharing her life story with her carer whom she sparks an unlikely friendship with. This book moved me so deeply, I didn’t expect it at all! Following Frankie’s story was so deeply touching and I felt like I truly knew her. I was rooting for her and I......more

Goodreads review by Tracy GH on February 04, 2025

What does it mean to have a significant life? A young carer in London , Damian, is hired to oversee, Frankie, an elderly lady who needs some temporary care. She finds out that Damian and her are from the same part of Ireland and because of this, she starts to tell him her life story. The story spans......more

Goodreads review by Peter on January 12, 2025

'To know that you’ve known happiness, to know that you’ve been loved, there is a great comfort in that.' This was my first Graham Norton novel and I must admit some trepidation on my part. Celebrities don't always turn their hand to the writing trade so easily. But I needn't have worried - Norton......more

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