Return Journey - Maeve Binchy

Evening Class - Maeve Binchy

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 Italian ...

Evening Class - Maeve Binchy

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 Italian ...

The Glass Lake - Maeve Binchy

Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, near the shores of a big lake. Her father is a pharmacist, her mother is a loving and impetuous woman who likes to be free of all restraint. The novel opens in 1952 when Kit is twelve, attending a convent school with her best friend Clio. A few chapters into the book, a dramatic event takes place that changes her family's lives permanently. This is a book to read over several days, and to savour. I first read it about six or seven years ago, and recently tried it again. I liked it considerably better second time around. At nearly 700 pages it's not a quick read anyway, and it's not the kind of novel that's meant ...

The Glass Lake - Maeve Binchy

Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, near the shores of a big lake. Her father is a pharmacist, her mother is a loving and impetuous woman who likes to be free of all restraint. The novel opens in 1952 when Kit is twelve, attending a convent school with her best friend Clio. A few chapters into the book, a dramatic event takes place that changes her family's lives permanently. This is a book to read over several days, and to savour. I first read it about six or seven years ago, and recently tried it again. I liked it considerably better second time around. At nearly 700 pages it's not a quick read anyway, and it's not the kind of novel that's meant ...

The Glass Lake - Maeve Binchy

I have read plenty of Maeve Binchy’s novels and found this one the most difficult to get into. If you have a copy and are having trouble do plough on as the story is a little slow to get all the characters introduced. Once you have read on I am sure you will be hooked, as I was. The story is set in Ireland and the main characters comprise of a family of four who live in a house near The Glass Lake, father Martin McMahon, mother Helen McMahon, son and daughter Kit and Emmet. Martin loves Helen but knows she doesn’t love him, Helen loves Louis, an old flame, 12 years and two children on she has still not forgotten him. So when he contacts her from ...

The Glass Lake - Maeve Binchy

I have read plenty of Maeve Binchy’s novels and found this one the most difficult to get into. If you have a copy and are having trouble do plough on as the story is a little slow to get all the characters introduced. Once you have read on I am sure you will be hooked, as I was. The story is set in Ireland and the main characters comprise of a family of four who live in a house near The Glass Lake, father Martin McMahon, mother Helen McMahon, son and daughter Kit and Emmet. Martin loves Helen but knows she doesn’t love him, Helen loves Louis, an old flame, 12 years and two children on she has still not forgotten him. So when he contacts her from ...