Frankie: A compelling, beautifully written, decade-sweeping novel from the Sunday Times bestseller

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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 Irish young 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.

Author Bio

Graham Norton has written four other novels, all Sunday Times bestsellers, in the UK and Ireland. His fiction writing has won him critical acclaim from across all media and the literary community.

Holding won the An Post Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction. A Keeper was shortlisted for both the Specsavers Popular Fiction Award and the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction. Home Stretch won the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction and has been optioned for a major TV series. Holding was made into a high-profile ITV drama, directed by Kathy Burke, and Forever Home was shortlisted at the 2022 Irish Book Awards.

Graham Norton is one of the UK's most respected and beloved broadcasters and presenters. He has won nine BAFTAs for Best Entertainment Performance and Best Entertainment Programme. He presents The Graham Norton Show on BBC One, is the BBC's commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest and is a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race UK.

Graham won the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards in 2017. He is the host of The Graham Norton Book Club podcast.