Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1554815 in Books
• Published on: 1900-05-04
• Binding: Paperback

From the Publisher
An enchanting novel of fierce loyalty and love in changing times, from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle

From the Back Cover
Big, generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends growing up in sleepy Knockglen. Their one thought is to get to Dublin, to university and to freedom…

On their first day at University College, Dublin, the inseparable pair are thrown together with fellow students Nan Malone, beautiful but selfish, and handsome Jack Foley. But trouble is brewing for Benny and Eve’s new circle of friends, and before long, they find passion, tragedy – and the independence they yearned for.

‘Binchy’s novels are never less than entertaining. They are, without exception, repositories of common sense and good humour… chronicled with tenderness and wit’
Sunday Times

‘Full of warmth and pure delight’
Woman & Home

‘As gripping as a blockbuster, but infinitely gentler and wiser’ Cosmopolitan

Fiction
Arrow Books

About the Author
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.