Maeve Binchy . One of Ireland’s all-time most popular authors.
In her latest engaging novel, prolific Irish author Binchy returns to the notion of sea change, addressed in her early work Light a Penny Candle (1983), which chronicled the story of an English girl during WWII who goes to live in Ireland.
Maeve Binchy . One of Ireland’s all-time most popular authors.
: : : : I’m guessing a penny candle wouldn’t have lasted very long so to say that one is lighting a penny candle for something or someone is to say that he isn’t really very concerned at all .
There are 18 novels; this was the first, published in 1982 , and although Binchy’s writing is endearing and funny in a happy forecast that the best was yet to come, Shay Linehan’s script doesn’t hide the over-eager plotting and the contradictions of character and likelihood.
Tony then dies in a sanitarium , leaving Aisling a wealthy widow, but Johnny, who has become Aisling’s lover in place of Elizabeth, refuses to marry her.
| First edition | Author Maeve Binchy | Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback) | Pages 592 pp | ISBN 0-091-77989-8 |
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