Maeve Binchy is the bestselling author of This Year It Will Be Different, The Glass Lake, The Copper Beech, The Lilac Bus, Circle of Friends, Silver Wedding, Firefly Summer, Echoes, Light a Penny Candle, and London Transports. She has written two plays and a teleplay that won three awards at the Prague Film Festival. A writer for The Irish Times since 1969, she lives with her husband, writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell, in London and Dublin.
"Totally engrossing.... Unforgettable.... An absolutely
grand story.... A lyrical and compelling family
drama.... Mountfern and its residents come vibrantly
alive."
-- The Plain Dealer.
"The secrets hidden behind lace curtains, a young girl's
first kiss, children's summer games, unexpected
pregnancies, sudden deaths. She makes us feel as if we
also know the place and the people.... One of those
good old-fashioned stories that are as comfortable
and comforting as home itself."
-- The Philadelphia Inquirer
When American millionaire Patrick O'Neill returns to his ancestral home in Ireland, his intent is to bring prosperity to Montfern in the form of a luxury hotel built from the ruins of an old estate. Instead, the villagers see their lifestyles irrevocably changed and the town's inner harmonies disrupted in the four years it takes to build O'Neill's hotel. Binchy ( Light a Penny Candle , LJ 2/15/83) offers vital, complex characters, from John and Kate Ryan, whose pub will be threatened by the new hotel, to Miss Barry, the canon's alcoholic housekeeper. These people live in all their quirky individualism and will remain with the reader long after the book is completed. Accolades. Andrea Caron Kempf, Johnson Cty. Community Coll. Lib., Overland Park, Kan.
"Totally engrossing.... Unforgettable.... An absolutely grand
story.... A lyrical and compelling family drama.... Mountfern and
its residents come vibrantly alive."
-- The Plain Dealer.
"The secrets hidden behind lace curtains, a young girl's first
kiss, children's summer games, unexpected pregnancies, sudden
deaths. She makes us feel as if we also know the place and the
people.... One of those good old-fashioned stories that are as
comfortable and comforting as home itself."
-- The Philadelphia Inquirer
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