Light a Penny Candle - Brossura

Binchy, Maeve

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0451222644 ISBN 13: 9780451222640

Casa editrice: Berkley, 2007

Riassunto

The chaotic events of World War II force Elizabeth White, a shy, young English girl, to escape to Ireland, where she shares a friendship with Aisling O'Connor, with whom she endures years of change, joy, sorrow, soaring dreams, bitter betrayals, and an unbreakable bond. Reprint.

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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

L'autore:

Maeve Binchy was born in County Dublin and educated at the Holy Child convent in Killiney and at University College, Dublin. After a spell as a teacher she joined The Irish Times. Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, was published in 1982, and she went on to write more than twenty books, all of them bestsellers. Several have been adapted for film and television, most notably Circle of Friends and Tara Road, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. She was married to writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell for thirty-five years. She passed away in 2012 at the age of seventy-two.

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• Editore: Berkley
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0451222644
• ISBN 13: 9780451222640
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 592