Frankie by Graham Norton with Rakesh Satyal

An evening with the internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show to celebrate his new novel. Featuring Graham Norton in conversation with editor Rakesh Satyal, followed by a signing.

PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required. This event is mixed seated/standing. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm.

Book purchase required to enter signing line.

From 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.

Photo by Sophia Spring

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, and Forever Home, as well as the bestselling memoirs So Me and The Life and Loves of a He Devil. He lives in London.

Rakesh Satyal (pronoun inclusive) is the author of the novels Blue Boy and No One Can Pronounce My Name. He is currently an Executive Editor at the HarperOne Group/HarperCollins. He is also a cabaret performer and speaks often on the topics of writing and publishing. He lives with his husband in Brooklyn.

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