Maeve Binchy was born in County Dublin and educated
at the Holy Child convent in Killiney and at University College,
Dublin. After a spell as a teacher she joined The Irish
Times. Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, was
published in 1982, and she went on to write more than twenty books,
all of them bestsellers. Several have been adapted for film and
television, most notably Circle of Friends and Tara
Road, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. She was
married to writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell for thirty-five
years. She passed away in 2012 at the age of seventy-two.
Praise for Maeve Binchy and Light a Penny Candle
“Extraordinary.”—Philadelphia Inquirer
“An Irish Thorn Birds...complete and rewarding.”—Newsday
“A find...so rich and engrossing you can forget your own
problems.”—Glamour
“A remarkably gifted writer…a wonderful student of human
nature.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Reading one of Maeve Binchy’s novels is like coming home.”—The
Washington Post
“Binchy is a grand storyteller in the finest Irish tradition…she
writes from the heart.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Binchy’s genius is transforming storytelling into art.”—San
Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
“Binchy’s tales combine warmth and spunk in a quintessentially
Celtic way...In the field of women’s popular fiction, the Dublin
storyteller sticks out like a faultless solitaire on a Woolworth’s
jewelry counter.”—Chicago Tribune
Praise for Maeve Binchy and Light a Penny Candle
"Extraordinary."-Philadelphia Inquirer
"An Irish Thorn Birds...complete and
rewarding."-Newsday
"A find...so rich and engrossing you can forget your own
problems."-Glamour
"A remarkably gifted writer...a wonderful student of human
nature."-The New York Times Book Review
"Reading one of Maeve Binchy's novels is like coming home."-The
Washington Post
"Binchy is a grand storyteller in the finest Irish tradition...she
writes from the heart."-The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Binchy's genius is transforming storytelling into art."-San
Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
"Binchy's tales combine warmth and spunk in a quintessentially
Celtic way...In the field of women's popular fiction, the Dublin
storyteller sticks out like a faultless solitaire on a Woolworth's
jewelry counter."-Chicago Tribune
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