“There are wheels within wheels… fires within fires,” fears Ann Putnam in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The same could be said by any number of characters in chat-show host Graham Norton’s debut novel. For repressed and untold truths live below the surface in quiet Duneen: each of three spinsters is “Holding” onto something… But for how long? Sergeant PJ Collins, who has tried to ‘hold back’ from getting too close to anyone, must make the connections. The town gossip thinks she knows the news; but Norton’s black humour dominates a novel venture into the literary industry.
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**** (4 Stars)
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NOTE TO READERS: The following review was written to the house style of OK! Magazine, and to a word limit. It did not require a full reading of the book; instead, it allowed me to write a more PR-esque report for the Reviews section.
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