Published Thursday, September 12, 2024Signed copies available for pre-order Frankie is an immersive, decade-sweeping story that brims with Graham Norton'strademark heart, intelligence and compellingly written characters. The novel takesus from small-town, conservative Ireland in the 1940s, to the dazzling art scene of1960s New York, via London, and tells the story of Frankie Powell, who has neverbeen the leading lady in her own life.Frankie has lived a long life and her small London flat is crammed full of art,furniture and memories. Damian, her young Irish carer, listens as she gradually tellshim parts of her story - a story that takes us into a progressive, daring world of NewYork artists on the brink of fame, aspiring writers and larger-than-life characters.Always just on the periphery, looking on, Frankie is never quite sure enough ofherself to take centre stage. But the outsider holds certain advantages, sees thingsothers don't, can influence without drawing attention. And when the map has beenlost, it's anyone's guess where you may end up, the lives you may encounter andthe accidental choices you find you have made. Frankie discovers that life is notalways the one we had hoped for, or the one others had expected of us.
