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Maeve Binchy
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Pages: 608 (Paperback)
ISBN: 009949857X
Pub: Arrow Books Ltd
Pub date: 2006-05-04
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 41927
Reader Reviews:
Maeve Binchy (0/0 people found this helpful)
Maeve binchy at her best. An account of an enduring friendship between two girls from different backgrounds and countries spanning the decades before and after the second world war.
A different Binchy? (0/0 people found this helpful)
In my point of view this is one of the best Binchy's novels. It's a story of a friendship that starts during the Second World War when a nine years old girl is sent to Ireland to avoid the blitz. There, living with a family that doesn't have anything in common with her own family, she makes a friendship that remain all her life - surviving to the good and bad moments of life.
As almost all Binchy's books, this novel explores the relationship between people and their characters. However, this is maybe one of her few books that doesn't have a real happy what turns it on a more realistic book.
A real page-turner (0/0 people found this helpful)
I found this book one of those great holiday reads that you can't put down. I feel like I know the characters personally and have grown up with the two young women who the story centers on. I was left hanging at the end though and felt a bit disappointed that the story just stopped rather than ended.
Not a nice ending - bitter after taste (1/3 people found this helpful)
This was a lovely novel, describing the differences between the catholics or Ireland and the CofE English, their customs and ways of life etc from war times. I enjoyed it a lot. But, sadly, like several of this author's novels, it is all going necely until endgame, where she seems to wreak the lives of the characters, giving one the impression that life always ends up in an aweful mess. It would have been so much easier to leave the reader with some kind of happier ending, something that entertains the reader rather than leaves them with a bitter taste in their mouth.
My best friend says, if you wake up from a bad dream you have to look at it again and make up a good ending to it, so that you can go through the day in a happy frame of mind. With these books, after you read the depressing finish and want to throw it down in an upset, review how teh story ended and make up a more pleasant ending. Then it would be okay. I find that works well for me.
Light a Penny Candle (1/1 people found this helpful)
Ive read this book twice and i loved it, the Characters are lovable! Again Binchy ends the book in a way that leaves you wondering about the Characters future!
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