A place forever

Carol, a divorced teacher, never thought she would fall in love again. Until she meets Declan. For both, it is true love, and after just a few months, she moves into his house. In the small Irish town, people gossip about the couple, and Sally and Kilian, Declan's children, reject their father's new partner. However, this only brings Carol and Declan closer together. Then Declan develops dementia. The illness rapidly worsens, and he is placed in a nursing home. Sally and Kilian decide to put the house, which was so important to him and has become a home for Carol, up for sale. Thus, at nearly fifty years old and with a broken heart, Carol must move back in with her parents. Her mother Moira never thought much of Declan, but she cannot bear to see her child suffer like this. Without hesitation, she buys the house for her daughter, unaware of the dark secret it holds. The new major novel by Graham Norton: told with the warmth, wit, and melancholy that only the Irish bestseller author can deliver.