A missing woman, a lost letter, a daughter's secret . . .
a tangled, touching story of love, loss and misunderstandings from
the No.1 bestselling author
Maeve Binchy was born in Dublin and was the London Correspondent forthe IRISH TIMES. Her first novel was LIGHT A PENNY CANDLE, and she has now sold millions of copies of her books around the world. She lives in Dublin with her husband, Gordon Snell.
THE GLASS LAKE is Maeve Binchy at her spellbinding best - you'll
never want it to end
*WOMAN'S JOURNAL*
Maeve Binchy really knows what makes women tick. She crystallises
their hopes, dreams and passions in her novels and now she has done
it again in THE GLASS LAKE ... a marvellous read
*DAILY MIRROR*
She is one of the few writers who can pull at your heartstrings ...
The author's great skill is to draw you into the world she creates,
so that reading her books is like gossiping with old friends
*DAILY EXPRESS*
Maeve Binchy's work continues to inspire ... thought-provoking,
warm and funny in equal measure
*Woman*
You can see why, for a legion of female readers, Maeve Binchy is a
one-woman opiate of the people
*Evening Standard*
Binchy is a consummate storyteller who involves the reader in the
world she creates... Binchy is a Dickens: she writes about the
dilemmas of human beings with a backdrop which describes the
manners and morals of a society
*IRISH TIMES*
Drama, humour, warmth and great characters - it's what we expect
from Maeve Binchy, one of the world's best-loved writers
*WOMAN'S WEEKLY*
A great raconteur in life, this novel displays Binchy's impressive
power of storytelling, with a plot that grows increasingly high
stakes with every hundred pages. She has a gift with character too
... Unsurprisingly, THE GLASS LAKE is one of the all-time
best-selling books in Ireland. It is wonderful to read a book that
had me wanting to read "just one more page"
*Jamie O'Connell, author of DIVING FOR PEARLS*
Bestselling novelist Binchy (Light a Penny Candle; Silver Wedding) again explores the passions and priorities of Irish women in a seductively written tale that's a bona fide page-turner. She sets this story in the small village of Lough Glass, the ``glass lake'' of the title, in Dublin and in London, animating each place more by the robust characterization of the people who live there than by the use of descriptive detail. When Kit McMahon is 12, her sad and distant mother disappears while walking along the lake. Authorities find the family's boat overturned, and, when Kit discovers a sealed letter addressed to her father, she fears that the suicide confession will keep her mother from a consecrated burial. She burns the letter, adding another burden to her misery. Helen is not dead, however. She has run off to London for great and compelling reasons, where she adopts the name Lena Gray and eventually becomes the director of an important employment agency. When Kit discovers her there years later, the anguish of both women is intensified by the complex situation, and the secret they now share eventually explodes in a way neither could have foreseen. If some aspects of the plot are contrived and the narrative overtold, the richness of Binchy's characters makes these drawbacks easy to forgive. A weeper of an ending brings this compelling saga to an unforgettable climax. (Mar.)
YA‘With the popularity of the film version of Binchy's Circle of Friends, this story, which traces the developments in the lives of two young friends in a small Irish town in the '50s, is likely to have wide appeal. The heroine, Kit, is shown to be at odds with her best friend, Clio, from the first scene. The differences in their values and emotions persist and separate them as the years pass. The life of Kit's beautiful mother unfolds in a concurrent plot line. Helen is generally believed to have died in a tragic drowning. She has, however, gone off with a lover. The story of her business successes and romantic complexities parallels her daughter's years of maturing, providing Kit and readers with ironic insights as she and a very few of the townspeople become aware of the woman's new life. A big, easy, comfortable read.‘Frances Reiher, King's Park Library, Burke, VA
THE GLASS LAKE is Maeve Binchy at her spellbinding best - you'll
never want it to end * WOMAN'S JOURNAL *
Maeve Binchy really knows what makes women tick. She crystallises
their hopes, dreams and passions in her novels and now she has done
it again in THE GLASS LAKE ... a marvellous read * DAILY MIRROR
*
She is one of the few writers who can pull at your heartstrings ...
The author's great skill is to draw you into the world she creates,
so that reading her books is like gossiping with old friends *
DAILY EXPRESS *
Maeve Binchy's work continues to inspire ... thought-provoking,
warm and funny in equal measure * Woman *
You can see why, for a legion of female readers, Maeve Binchy is a
one-woman opiate of the people * Evening Standard *
Binchy is a consummate storyteller who involves the reader in the
world she creates... Binchy is a Dickens: she writes about the
dilemmas of human beings with a backdrop which describes the
manners and morals of a society * IRISH TIMES *
Drama, humour, warmth and great characters - it's what we expect
from Maeve Binchy, one of the world's best-loved writers * WOMAN'S
WEEKLY *
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