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Maeve Binchy can always be counted on to spin an involving tale about ordinary people that brings out the extraordinary in everyone. In Evening Class, Binchy zooms in on the working-class of Dublin. Schoolteacher Aidan Dunne organises an evening class in Italian with the help of Nora O'Donoghue, an Irishwoman returning home after 26 years in Sicily. When the somewhat squashed-by-life denizens of the surrounding neighbourhood take the unexpected step of enrolling in the class, they find their lives transformed.
Binchy tells her story from the viewpoints of eight different characters and rewards both them and us with happy endings after the requisite rocky road. Listening to a novel by Maeve Binchy is like catching up with old friends--you know everything will turn out fine in the end, but you're still interested in how things get that way. Kate Binchy's light and lilting voice shifts effortlessly to capture the essence of both major and minor characters. Her Italian pronunciation is entirely credible and her reading brings an extra dimension to this charming story. --Sarah Crawford
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A group of people, all looking for something more in their lives, and all they have in common is their Italian evening class . . .
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This story is told in much the same way as 'The Lilac Bus' and 'A Silver Wedding'
Binchy manages to join a number of short stories and the people in them brilliantly. The story tells how an Italian evening class changes their lives.
We have the crazy Signora, possibly the main character of this book. She follows her love, Mario, to Italy, and spends the best part of her live watching him through a window. Aidan Dunne, comes across as so boring his family wont even speak to him, but theres more to his family than meets the eye. Barry who's mother is suicidal due to his fathers betrayal. Lou who manages to buy his girlfriend all the gifts she can imagine even though he has a low paid job. Connie who is rich and mysterious. Fran and Cathy, two sisters, or are they? and Bill and Lizzy who are engaged, can you get 2 more opposite people? A group of completly different people with different backgrouds who are brought together by an Italian Evening classe.
Really enjoyed this book.
Binchy manages to join a number of short stories and the people in them brilliantly. The story tells how an Italian evening class changes their lives.
We have the crazy Signora, possibly the main character of this book. She follows her love, Mario, to Italy, and spends the best part of her live watching him through a window. Aidan Dunne, comes across as so boring his family wont even speak to him, but theres more to his family than meets the eye. Barry who's mother is suicidal due to his fathers betrayal. Lou who manages to buy his girlfriend all the gifts she can imagine even though he has a low paid job. Connie who is rich and mysterious. Fran and Cathy, two sisters, or are they? and Bill and Lizzy who are engaged, can you get 2 more opposite people? A group of completly different people with different backgrouds who are brought together by an Italian Evening classe.
Really enjoyed this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I loved this book. Read it in the week between Christmas and New Year when the weather was cold and miserable. Pure escapism. A joy to read.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a lovely book, well written and enthralling like all of Minchy's books. However it is a little unusual in that it starts off so sadly - I was in tears at the end of the 1st chapter - tears of loss for the character whose life she was describing, but I am pleased to advise that all comes well as the novel progresses. I always think a book is magnificent if it can make you laugh or cry, and this does both. It is a lovely book
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Evening Class
After reading some disappointing novels recently and struggling to write any positive reviews, I thought I'd have a quick read of one of my fav Binchy books to cheer myself up. Read more
Published 1 month ago by wendy
Uneven, but mainly enjoyable
Like Pulp Fiction, Love Actually, The Slap etc, Evening Class isn't so much a single story as a collection of interwoven but reasonably self-contained short stories. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Jemma S
Maeve Binchy Three great Novels Evening Classes The Copper Beech Tara...
Thank you for sending me the book, it arrived very quickly and in good order
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Published 19 months ago by Georgia
My first and last Binchy
I've studiously avoided Maeve Binchy books as chick lit. After listening to her being interviewed on Radio 4 I began to think I had formed a wrong opinion. Read more
Published on 1 Jun 2010 by Jane Baker
Good buy.
Good service: book a fair price, in good condition, arrived quickly, well packaged. Print is very small indeed. Read more
Published on 20 Dec 2009 by Lolly J
Keep it for those rainy days....
The story of a group of Dubliners from different ages and walks of life, whose lives are literally turned upside down by an enthusiastic and eccentric "signora" who teaches them... Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2008 by Cristina
When you want something to read that doesn`t require much...
you can read this. I wouldn`t recommend it as a great read but it passes the time on shall we say....?
Published on 6 April 2008 by Leeds lass
Very light
I usually enjoy Maeve Binchy even although her stories have no depth. You certainly don't learn anything but they are entertaining like a good soap opera. Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2008 by love reading
Simple and pleasant, but nothing more
I found Evening Class to be a simple, easy to read story. But it didn't go any deeper than that. This is a very pleasant book to entertain you or pass the time while you are lying... Read more
Published on 9 Aug 2000
Pure feel good escapism. not her best but still a great read
Yet again another great book from Binchy - if not her best. Another host of different characters all looking for some diifering type of fulfilment from the Italian evening classes... Read more
Published on 6 Aug 1999
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