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"Brilliant: a remarkable, panoramic and vastly entertaining novel."
--Molly Keane, "Irish Press"
--Molly Keane, "Irish Press"
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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has to be one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. The friendship portrayed within its pages is heartwarming and it is so wonderfully evoked. If there is one thing that Maeve Binchy can do, it is to create character and mood like no one else. You really feel lost when you finish the last sentence.
The only bad thing about this book is that when you've read it, it's over.
The only bad thing about this book is that when you've read it, it's over.
One of the few books I would willingly pick up to re - read!!
Read this if you can!!!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
One not to be missed by any Meave Binchy fan, or anyone else for that matter. You will go from laughing to crying and back to laughing so many times. A really great read not to be missed. One of her best! Once started you can't put it down.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book reminds me so well of the many holidays - especially Christmasses - that I have spent in Ireland. The descriptions of rural family life are brilliant, and as a solitary English girl whose best friend is the oldest of 7 Irish children, I found the relationship between Elizabeth and Aisling totally convincing. When I first visited Ireland - many years ago now - I was overwhelmed by the difference of it all, the Catholicism, the huge families, the social networks which (as a child of suburban London) I had never experienced. I still love Ireland, and this novel was full of the reasons why. It does deal with issues - domestic violence, divorce, alcoholism - which dispel the myth of Ireland as a utopian paradise, but it still manages to be a really good story, and one which you don't want to end - is there a sequel? I would love to know what happened to the girls in the end.
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Kindle book
I'm not quite sure how one can review a kindle book. It came through to me immediately and is fine.
Published 1 month ago by tango
Wonderful book!
Don't know if this is the author's first book, but it is certainly one of her best. I have read it three times now and still love it. Strong writing with wonderful characters! Read more
Published 10 months ago by susan russell
Maeve Binchy
Maeve binchy at her best. An account of an enduring friendship between two girls from different backgrounds and countries spanning the decades before and after the second world... Read more
Published on 20 Jan 2010 by M. Simpson
A different Binchy?
In my point of view this is one of the best Binchy's novels. It's a story of a friendship that starts during the Second World War when a nine years old girl is sent to Ireland to... Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2009 by R M Azedo
A real page-turner
I found this book one of those great holiday reads that you can't put down. I feel like I know the characters personally and have grown up with the two young women who the story... Read more
Published on 20 July 2009 by Book Babe
Not a nice ending - bitter after taste
This was a lovely novel, describing the differences between the catholics or Ireland and the CofE English, their customs and ways of life etc from war times. I enjoyed it a lot. Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2009 by Angel Silver
Light a Penny Candle
Ive read this book twice and i loved it, the Characters are lovable! Again Binchy ends the book in a way that leaves you wondering about the Characters future!
Published on 16 Oct 2008 by L Murphy
Light a Penny Candle
This book is fab.. Ive read it twice. A must read giving an insight into Irish Life and humour. Very witty and funny. Recommended.
Published on 21 July 2008
Unmissable
This book shows Binchy at her best. It's warm loving characters make it impossible not to become deeply involved in their lives. Read more
Published on 14 Aug 2001 by kandi_snaps@hotmail.com
Friends forever
Elizabeth is quiet and shy; Aisling is loud and boisterous. In 1940, aged ten, Elizabeth is evacuated from London to an old friend of her mother's in Ireland. Read more
Published on 2 April 2000 by Claire Hennessy
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