Light a Penny Candle, Maeve Binchy
Light a Penny Candle, Maeve Binchy
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Light a Penny Candle

Author: Maeve Binchy

Narrator: Kate Binchy

Abridged: 2 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/04/2000

Categories: Fiction, Sagas

Synopsis

Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous O'Connors in Kilgarret, Ireland. It is the beginning of an unshakeable bond between Elizabeth and Aisling O'Connor, a friendship which will endure through twenty turbulent years of change and chaos, joy and sorrow, soaring dreams and searing betrayals... Writing with warmth, wit and great compassion, Maeve Binchy tells a magnificent story of the lives and loves of two women, bound together in a friendship that nothing could tear asunder - not even the man who threatened to come between them forever.

About The Author

Maeve Binchy was born in Dublin, and went to school at the Holy Child Convent in Killiney. She took a history degree at UCD and taught in various girls' schools, writing travel articles in the long summer holidays. In 1969 she joined the Irish Times and for many years she was based in London writing humorous columns from all over the world. She is the author of five collections of short stories as well as twelve novels including Circle of Friends, The Copper Beech, Tara Road, Evening Class and The Glass Lake. Maeve Binchy died on 30 July 2012. She is survived by her husband, the writer Gordon Snell.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tea on March 24, 2013

Ovo je prvi roman Mev Binči a ujedno i prvi koji sam pročitala... Ovom knjigom me je "kupila" i zadržala doživotno... :)......more

Goodreads review by Karen on December 02, 2023

Catching up… Back in my RV days I selected this book to take on the road with me to read. I figured that it’s 582 pages would keep me occupied for those long drives! What I remember about this book… A delightful story of two women over their lifetime. Cozy, comfy, satisfying.......more

Goodreads review by C. (Comment, never msg). on June 16, 2014

I am going to remember “Light A Penny Candle” vividly. I was brought into the lives of friends from ages 10 to about 25. I felt I knew them and the sense of connectivity persists. The setting is 1940s wartime but the novel isn’t about war. A few men figure prominently but the genre isn’t romance. ‘......more

Goodreads review by Marina on March 17, 2018

This book is long! 824 pages. I bought it, second- hand, in paperback and it was so thick that (having become used to reading on a Kindle) it felt quite uncomfortable to hold at first. I’m an avid reader of crime fiction, and when the story opened with a ‘flash-forward’ in a coroner’s court, I found......more

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Praise for Maeve Binchy and Light a Penny Candle

“Extraordinary.”—Philadelphia Inquirer

“An Irish Thorn Birds...complete and rewarding.”—Newsday

“A find...so rich and engrossing you can forget your own problems.”—Glamour

“A remarkably gifted writer…a wonderful student of human nature.”—The New York Times Book Review 

“Reading one of Maeve Binchy’s novels is like coming home.”—The Washington Post

“Binchy is a grand storyteller in the finest Irish tradition…she writes from the heart.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer 

“Binchy’s genius is transforming storytelling into art.”—San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

“Binchy’s tales combine warmth and spunk in a quintessentially Celtic way...In the field of women’s popular fiction, the Dublin storyteller sticks out like a faultless solitaire on a Woolworth’s jewelry counter.”—Chicago Tribune

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