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A review by life_full_ofbooks
Frankie by Graham Norton
2.0
I really wanted to like this book and I started off doing so. It lost me about halfway through, though.
Frankie is an elderly woman who hires a home health aide to come stay with her at night while she’s recuperating from a broken leg. Damian isn’t sure what to expect when he arrives at this woman’s cramped flat and when he discovers she’d rather he listen to her life story than make her tea and help her get ready for bed, he does so willingly.
This is told via alternating flashback chapters and while they are somewhat interesting, they are quite long and often repetitive. The alternate current day chapters feel like they’re just filler, which this book definitely does not need.
Thank you to NetGalley and HarperVia for an advanced copy of this. Frankie hits the shelves on January 14th.
Frankie is an elderly woman who hires a home health aide to come stay with her at night while she’s recuperating from a broken leg. Damian isn’t sure what to expect when he arrives at this woman’s cramped flat and when he discovers she’d rather he listen to her life story than make her tea and help her get ready for bed, he does so willingly.
This is told via alternating flashback chapters and while they are somewhat interesting, they are quite long and often repetitive. The alternate current day chapters feel like they’re just filler, which this book definitely does not need.
Thank you to NetGalley and HarperVia for an advanced copy of this. Frankie hits the shelves on January 14th.