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Light a Penny Candle (Paperback)

by Maeve Binchy (Author)
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  • Paperback: 608 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (4 May 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 009949857X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099498575
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 33,965 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous O'Connors in Kilgarret, Ireland. It is the beginning of an unshakable bond between Elizabeth and Aisling O'Connor, a friendship which will endure through twenty turbulent years of change and chaos, joy and sorrow, soaring dreams and searing betrayals. Writing with warmth, wit and great compassion, Maeve Binchy tells a magnificent story of the lives and loves of two women, bound together in a friendship that nothing could tear asunder - not even the man who threatened to come between them forever.


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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Heartwarming, 3 Sep 2004
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This review is from: Light a Penny Candle (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.

One of the few books I would willingly pick up to re - read!!
Read this if you can!!!

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Irish life, 10 Nov 2002
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars A Riveting Read, a great mix of humour and emotion, 14 Jun 1999
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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 1 month ago by R M Azedo

4.0 out of 5 stars 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 3 months ago by Book Babe

3.0 out of 5 stars 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. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Angel Silver

5.0 out of 5 stars 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 13 months ago by L Murphy

5.0 out of 5 stars 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 15 months ago

5.0 out of 5 stars 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

5.0 out of 5 stars 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

5.0 out of 5 stars All women should read this book
Someone once described that reading a Maeve Binchy book is like "talking about all the gossip with your best friend in your favourite tea shop" and they were right... Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2000

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