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Maeve Binchy
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Pages: 704 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0752876872
Pub: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Pub date: 2005-06-29
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 113409
Editorial Review:
The Glass Lake is a sly, seductive and compulsively readable book, perfect for rainy afternoons and late nights in bed. In the tradition of her beloved novel Circle of Friends, Irish novelist Maeve Binchey offers a wonderful old-fashioned melodrama with a contemporary cast of compelling characters.
Reader Reviews:
a gripping read (0/0 people found this helpful)
sleepy village life means life seems to be passing Helen McMahon by. Married with two children, it seems an idyl life. Untill, one day, Helen goes missing, oresumed drowned in the lake of Lough Glass. What happens next has repurcusions for her entire family, and has some great twists. Great characters, brilliant writing and a wonderful plot means you wont be able to put it down untill you reach the end.
I can not put this book down!! (3/5 people found this helpful)
I am in the middle of reading this book and i can not express how GOOD this book is, its been keeping me up til all hours of the night reading! I will come back and review it fully when i am done with the book but i have to say this book has me hooked!! I have read 2 others of Maeve Binchys books (Tara Road and Quentins) and loved them too, can't wait to read more of her books :)
UNPUTDOWNABLE BOOK (3/5 people found this helpful)
Having read some of Maeve Binchy's books in the past - not by buying them but by being given - I picked up this book for a holiday read. Once started I couldn't stop, you live the lives of the characters and can feel their joys and anxities. I will certainly be buying more from this in author in the future.
Kate Binchy the narrator was splendid (2/3 people found this helpful)
It's the 1950's, Kit McMahon is a young woman living in a small town beside a lake. She believes her mother has committed suicide and when a friend of her mother's in London starts writing wonderful letters to her, a friendship blooms. Binchy's characters come alive she has captured the people, the time and the place perfectly. This book is definitely a page turner though not the sort of thing I usually choose to read. I didn't read this but listened to it on Audio Cassette read by Kate Binchy who brought the characters to life better than reading it myself could have done. Three days later her voice was still in my head.
Typical Binchy book about family / village life (0/0 people found this helpful)
Typical Binchy book about a small town and a few of the families within the village. Some of the younger members escape to Dublin where they discover that not everything is as rosy as they thought the big city would be.
Typically Binchy in that along side the general family traumas is love and romance and their impact on families and in particular the main character.
I did not enjoy this book as much as some of the other Binchy books I have read.
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