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Maeve Binchy

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Jux · 07/05/2013 13:37

Has anyone read anything by her?

I am reading my first ever book of hers, called Whitethorn Woods. So far it's lots of vignettes of different people, almost all written in the first person. Every 'voice' is exactly the same. It's really rather dull. Is she usually like this?

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TerraNotSoFirma · 07/05/2013 17:51

I loved the two I read, but I was 15 or so when I read them.
Echoes and light a penny candle, I may download them for nostalgia's sake.

DuchessofMalfi · 07/05/2013 17:49

I love Circle of Friends.

Primrose123 · 07/05/2013 16:04

I agree with Light a Penny Candle, it's brilliant. Echoes was very popular too, although I wasn't so keen. Tara Road is good, and so is The Glass Lake and Evening Class, but I agree that the later books aren't as good as the earlier ones.

Whitethorn Woods is not one of Maeve Binchy's best books in my opinion.

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Jux · 07/05/2013 15:57

Thanks. The style of this is terribly simplistic; is that typical?

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MoaningMingeWhingesAgain · 07/05/2013 13:41

I like her but much prefer the early ones. Light a Penny Candle is old but brilliant.