5/20/2023 0 Comments Quentins by Maeve Binchy![]() ![]() Everybody has a colorful way with words, and if the prose is sometimes careless, this is still Irish storytelling at its contemporary best small flaws are easily overlooked in a book that is itself so generous. ![]() While Nan seizes opportunities, friendships and romances are kindled and damped ugly duckling Benny becomes a swan, and true love almost conquers all. ![]() When they go to university in Dublin together, their loyalty is tested by the addition of others to their circle, most notably the beautiful, mysterious Nan, an ambitious young woman determined to rise above her working-class origins. Ella Brady wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. Benny, plain daughter of a merchant, and Eve, a proud orphan raised by nuns, are close friends growing up in the Irish village of Knockglen in the 1950s. 1 New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy tells the story of a generation and a city through the history of a Dublin restaurant in this warm-hearted (Boston Herald) enthralling novel. In this lengthy story of a friendship and love and loss, there are no lapses or lulls. The charm of Binchy's novels ( Silver Wedding Light a Penny Candle ) lies in a seductive readability that draws one through hundreds of pages as surely as a mackerel at the end of a hooked line-contrived plot thickeners and stock characters notwithstanding. ![]()
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