Maeve Binchy was born in Dublin on May 28, 1940 and died on July 30, 2012. She was the London correspondent for the Irish Times. Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle won her critical attention in the USA and in the UK. She is widely regarded as one of the first authors in the 'chicklit' genre.
Book Review:This is the story of two women, one Irish, Aisling, and the other English, Elizabeth. Their friendship is formed when they are young and endures throughout.
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Book Review:The Silver Wedding celebrations loom for the Doyle family, Deirdre, Desmond and the children. Noone is looking forward to this gathering because each of them would rather be elsewhere. Anywhere but with the people they most despise in the world. But they must put on a show. And what a show uit was.
Book Review:By the school house at Shancarrig stands a copper beech, its bark scarred with the names and dreams of the pupils who have grown up under its branches. This tree is the gateway to Maeve Binchy`s marvellous portrait of a small Irish town whose untroubled surface conceals the passions, rivalries, friendships, ambitions and jealousies beneath.
Book Review:Kit MacMahon lives in the small sleepy Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone, children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away for it is a place where change comes slowly. One day Helen MacMahon vanishes and gossip is rife. The story moves to London where Lena Gray attempts to contact Kit. What does she want?
Book Review:Scarlet and Tom Feather are setting up 'the best catering business in Ireland'. Or so they hoped. Their plight is not helped by an array of characters destined to become obstacles in the pairs fortunes.
Book Review:Four strangers meet in a Greek taverna in a small village. They are from America, England, Germany and Ireland. They are strangers until a shocking tragedy brings them closer together.
Book Review:Maeve Binchy gives advice to cheeer up using her usual wit and charm.
Book Review:A collection of Maeve Binchy`s articles from The Irish Times. Maeve takes a subtle glance at the practical problems that confront us all.