The Glass Lake, Maeve Binchy
The Glass Lake, Maeve Binchy
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The Glass Lake

Author: Maeve Binchy

Narrator: Fionnula Flanagan

Abridged: 5 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2000


Synopsis

Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the serene waters of Lough Glass. Until the day she disappeared, leaving only a boat drifting upside down on the unfathomable lake that gave the town its name. Ravishing Helen McMahon, the Dubliner with film-star looks and unfulfilled dreams, never belonged in Lough Glass, not the way her genial pharmacist-husband Martin belonged, or their spirited daughter Kit. Suddenly, she is gone and Kit is haunted by the memory of her mother, seen through a window, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming down her face. Now Kit, too, has secrets: of the night she discovered a letter on Martin’s pillow and burned it, unopened. The night her mother was lost. The night everything changed forever…

About The Author

Maeve Binchy was born and educated in Dublin. She is the bestselling author of The Return Journey, Evening Class, This Year It Will Be Different, and The Glass Lakes. She has written two plays and a teleplay that won three awards at the Prague Film Festival. She has been writing for The Irish Times since 1969 and lives with her husband, writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell, in Dublin.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hania

This is the second Binchy book I read after her "Quentins" which turned out to be just perfect..this one is the same, perfect...good enough to make yu read two days straight to finish it........more

I... have no clue how to start writing this review. This is the story of lives, lives affected by secrets and lies and choices made by a handful of people. We watch as the consequences of those choices shape the lives of so many people over a span of about ten years. Naturally for a story that has t......more

Goodreads review by Amy

I love me some Maeve Binchy. When I read her books, I want to be Irish, own a pub, and live in a tiny town. I can hardly read one of her books without developing a fierce hankering for corned beef and cabbage. In typical Binchy style - we're immediately drawn into the life of a simple family in a la......more


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"A grand storyteller in the finest Irish tradition....She writes from the heart" -- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)