I loved this book. I have read others by Binchy and did not enjoy them as much as I enjoyed this book. I think all of her books are entertaining and she has a wonderful way with characters, but this is the one I have read over and over again. Whenever I don't have a new book to read I always turn to this one. In fact I probably should get a new copy as the spin on mine is shattered.
It's a must...
The book is wonderfully written in nostalgic tones. Pilcher convinces the reader to love every character, including Noel who is infuriating yet endearing. The stories within the story are woven in nicely and the introduction to each character is clever, leaving the reader tantalisingly wanting to know more.
this book definately made me fall in love with danielle steels books this book is the one i always keep by my bed and read at least twice a year.. it definately made me go through the range of motions. i first read this book at 11 each time i read i find something new in it. although i have since found other danielle steel books to pale in comparison.. definately a must have book..
Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character who ,if provoked, is not above skewering her antagonist with a piece of her exceptionally sharp, yet always polite, 18th-century wit. The real point of the book...
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!
Maeve Binchy can always be counted on to spin an involving tale about ordinary people that brings out the extraordinary in everyone. In Evening Class, Binchy zooms in on the working-class of Dublin. Schoolteacher Aidan Dunne organises an evening class in Italian with the help of Nora O'Donoghue, an Irishwoman returning home after 26 years in Sicily. When the somewhat squashed-by-life denizens...
