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Evening Class (Paperback)

by Maeve Binchy (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: Orion; New edition edition (2 May 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752809636
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752809632
  • Product Dimensions: 17.9 x 11.1 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 656,644 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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It's the perfect gift: Laughter, the best medicine! From beloved author Maeve Binchy, who has captured the hearts of millions with her spectacular national bestsellers, including Circle of Friends and Tara Road. In Evening Class, she applies her signature warmth, wit and understanding to something new--a wickedly funny book for anyone who's checked into the hospital, headed for an operation or convalesced at home. Maeve Binchy can always be counted on to spin an involving tale about ordinary people that brings out the extraordinary in everyone. Here, she 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 her readers with happy endings after the requisite rocky road. Reading 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.

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Among the many evening classes starting all over Dublin is an 'Introduction to Italian'. On the surface it could be just one of hundreds in which some students will succeed and some will fall along the way. But the Italian class at Mountainview School has its own special quality, and the hopes and dreams of so many people are tied up in the twice weekly lessons. The students learn far more than they ever bargained for, and by the time they are ready to set off on the promised trip to Italy at the end of the year, everyone's destiny has changed utterly.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Very readable, warm and entertaining, 25 May 1999
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This review is from: Evening Class (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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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Pure feel good escapism. not her best but still a great read, 6 Aug 1999
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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 which bring them all closer together and manages to resolve some, if not all of their problems. The only criticism I have of this book is that the characters are a little two dimensional - a function I think of concentrating on so many different people within the space of one mid length story - there simply is not enough time. I still feel that the character and story development and degree of reality in Circle of Friends makes this book in comparison a poorer relation.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Addictive Reading, 11 Feb 1999
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Once you start to read this book - you won't be able to put it down. All fans of Maeve Binchy won't be disapointed.
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3.0 out of 5 stars 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 11 months ago by Cristina

3.0 out of 5 stars When you want something to read that doesn`t require much concentration
you can read this. I wouldn`t recommend it as a great read but it passes the time on shall we say....?
Published 15 months ago by Leeds lass

3.0 out of 5 stars 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 17 months ago by love reading

3.0 out of 5 stars 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

5.0 out of 5 stars Must for Gossip Lovers!
When I first bought this book - I expect it to be like other books but this is fanstantic ... I cannot leave this book unread! Read more
Published on 27 Mar 1999

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