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Original Title: | The Glass Lake |
ISBN: | 0752876872 (ISBN13: 9780752876870) |
Edition Language: | English |
Setting: | Lough Glass(Ireland) |
Maeve Binchy
Paperback | Pages: 704 pages Rating: 3.93 | 20385 Users | 852 Reviews
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Title | : | The Glass Lake |
Author | : | Maeve Binchy |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 704 pages |
Published | : | June 29th 2005 by The Orion Publishing Group Ltd (first published 1994) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Cultural. Ireland. Romance |
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Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly. One day, Kit's mother disappears and the town gossips run wild with stories. The consequences for Helen's husband, her son, but above all for her daughter, Kit, are unimaginable and will leave not one of their lives unchanged.Rating Regarding Books The Glass Lake
Ratings: 3.93 From 20385 Users | 852 ReviewsComment On Regarding Books The Glass Lake
Maeve Binchy is a wonderful story teller. This is along complicated family tale. Her characters are so real that you can reach out and touch them. I recommend Maeve Binchy to whomever wants to be lost in a book.I read this many years ago, I will endeavour to read it again this year. This was a haunting tale of a woman deeply unhappy and a poor husband left to pick up the pieces for the rest of his family. One of the first Maeve's books I read. I really do enjoy re-reading these books as it brings back memories from my teenage years and it's nice to rekindle the memories of my first 'grown up' books I tackled. I love revisiting them for this reason, but mostly as I simply adore this author's work!
This book had some parts that semmed to drag on & was a bit predictable, which is why I only gave it 4 stars. Once I got passed the slow beginning, it pulled me in & I didn't want to put it down. In my own personal prejudices, I never thought I could feel for a mother who abandons her children. But this book allowed me to not only feel for her character but to love her & abandon my judgements against her (& others who I've known to make these kinds of choices). It's a great book
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 to span that amount of time, it took some time also to get into it. It took at least 100 pages (which isn't much considering how long it is) and a couple hundred more before I absolutely could not put
This is one of my all-time favourite books - I think partly because of how it got me through what could have been an awful travel day. I picked it up as bulk paperback at the Ottawa airport just before Christmas in, I think, 1995. I had never heard of Maeve Binchy, but it was a fat novel and I was pretty sure it was going to be a long day, as I was flying back to visit my family in northern BC, and it was one of those awful Canadian winters. My plane ended up having to detour through Toronto,
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..
Kit McMahon is a young girl living in the small village of Lough Glass, where everyone knows each other. She is believed to live a charmed life - has a doting mother and father, a brother she gets on well with, many friends (including the shallow but vivacious Clio Kelly). One night Kit's mother Helen goes out walking and never comes back - after months of searching, a body is found and Kit mourns the mother she has lost. At the same time we start following the story of Lena Gray in London, an
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