Evening Class - Maeve Binchy

Evening Class by Maeve Binchy is not the sort of book I would normally chose. I prefer gritty, unusual stories with unexpected twists . As it happens the choice of english books in my local library is limited and there weren't any better options(I refuse to read Nora Roberts.) Thus I began "Evening Class" expecting a pretty run of the mill book that if not exactly chick lit was not far off. Evening Class is set around Mountainview school in Dublin, the very school that Aidan Dunne is expecting to become headmaster of. Unfortunately, he suffers a major disappointment as he loses out. To console himself he starts an Italien evening class and recruits ...  Read the complete review

For me evening class is a great book written by one of my favourite authors Maeve Binchy. It tells the story of a very mixed group of people from Dublin who join an evening class to learn Italian all for very different reasons. The class is run by a lady called Nora O’Donoghue who has just returned from Italy after the death of her beloved Mario whom she was the mistress of for many years, this wasn’t a sordid love affair but the usuall tale of a man not wanting to leave his wife and children. She returns to dublin penniless and in look of work and lodges with Aidan Dunne a teacher at Mountainview High who suggests to Nora to run an ...  Read the complete review