Customer Reviews
Light a Penny Candle - By: , 21 Jul 2008 
This book is fab.. Ive read it twice. A must read giving an insight into Irish Life & humour. Very witty & funny. Recommended.
Heartwarming - By: , 03 Sep 2004 This book has to be one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. The friendship portrayed within its pages is heartwarming & it is so wonderfully evoked. If there is one thing that Maeve Binchy can do, it is to create character & mood like no one else. You reallly feel lost when you finish the last sentence.
The only bad thing about this book is that when you've read it, it's over.
One of the few books I would willingly pick up to re - read!!
Read this if you can!!!
Irish life - By: , 11 Nov 2002 This book reminds me so well of the many holidays - especiallly Christmasses - that I have spent in Ireland. The descriptions of rural family life are brilliant, & as a solitary English girl whose best friend is the oldest of 7 Irish children, I found the relationship between Elizabeth & Aisling totallly convincing. When I first visited Ireland - many years ago now - I was overwhelmed by the difference of it alll, the Catholicism, the huge families, the social networks which (as a child of suburban London) I had never experienced. I still love Ireland, & this novel was full of the reasons why. It does deal with issues - domestic violence, divorce, alcoholism - which dispel the myth of Ireland as a utopian paradise, but it still manages to be a reallly good story, & one which you don't want to end - is there a sequel? I would love to know what happened to the girls in the end.
Unmissable - By: kandi_snaps@hotmail.com, 14 Aug 2001 This book shows Binchy at her best. It's warm loving characters make it impossible not to become deeply involved in their lives. I was mortified to read the last few pages, it was like losing a group of friends. The book is fantastic & you will not be able to put it down from the first page.
Friends forever - By: Claire Hennessy, 02 Apr 2000 Elizabeth is quiet & shy; Aisling is loud & boisterous. In 1940, aged ten, Elizabeth is evacuated from London to an old friend of her mother's in Ireland. There she meets Aisling, the same age as her, & they become fast friends. The book deals with the next twenty years of their lives as they falll in love, have to deal with many problems, & turn to each other for support & friendship. It's brilliant.
