The Glass Lake
by:
Maeve Binchy (author)
Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly. Until one day, beautiful,...
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Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly. Until one day, beautiful, mysterious Helen McMahon disappears, presumed drowned in the lake, and then the gossip runs wild. The consequences for Helen's husband, her son, but above all for her daughter, Kit, are unimaginable and will leave not one of their lives unchanged.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780752876870 (0752876872)
Publish date: June 29th 2005
Publisher: The Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Pages no: 704
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Irish Literature,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
I might have become a Maeve Binchy fan after reading her novel Circle of Friends, but one of my all-time favorite books has to be her novel The Glass Lake, which also takes place in the 1950s in a small Irish town.::: Lough Glass :::Kit McMahon lives in the town of Lough Glass, which is on a large l...
I loved Binchy, although this isn't my favorite, Circle of Friends and This Year It Will Be Different hold pride of place. She gets at the good and bad in small towns so well.
I rather liked it. However, I got SO fed up with Louis' behaviour! Had I been Lena I would have confronted him with his many affairs, and not just let him live in the arrogant illusion that he was able to keep them secret. Grrrr! I've read most of Maeve Binchy's books by now, and while this wasn't o...
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