Book description
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.
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 is married to the writer Gordon Snell
and they live in Dalkey, Dublin.
