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Light A Penny Candle
  • Published: 15 February 2019
  • ISBN: 9781787461536
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 848
  • RRP: $37.99
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Light A Penny Candle

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1 Feb 2011
Paperback
15 Feb 2019
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A timeless bestseller from one of Tom Hanks' favourite authors

'Maeve Binchy! I love her stories and have since Light a Penny Candle.' TOM HANKS
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A FRIENDSHIP NOTHING COULD DESTROY.

Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, the shy Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the O'Connor family in Kilgarret, Ireland, where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with the lively, boisterous Aisling O'Connor.

Neither of them were to know it would become the most important friendship of their lives. Their bond is unshakeable, enduring over turbulent years of change and chaos, joy and sorrow, soaring dreams - and searing betrayals . . .

With warmth, wit and great compassion, Maeve Binchy tells a magnificent story of two women, bound together in a friendship that nothing could tear apart - not even the man who threatened to come between them forever.
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'What better books to raise the spirits than the gentle, insightful Irish tales of Maeve Binchy?' HELLO! Magazine
'Wonderfully warm and involving' KATIE FFORDE
'If any author can help you survive lockdown, it's Binchy' DAILY MAIL'I find myself yearning for the rain-soaked watercolour writing of Maeve Binchy' JENNY COLGAN, GUARDIAN Best Comfort Reads'Binchy's novels are never less than entertaining' SUNDAY TIMES
  • Published: 15 February 2019
  • ISBN: 9781787461536
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 848
  • RRP: $37.99
Categories:

About the author

Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy was born in County Dublin and educated at the Holy Child convent in Killiney and at University College, Dublin. After a spell as a teacher she joined The Irish Times. Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, was published in 1982, and she went on to write more than 20 books, all of them bestsellers. Several have been adapted for film and television, most notably Circle of Friends and Tara Road, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. She was married to the writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell for 35 years, and died in 2012 at the age of 72.
portrait photo of Maeve Binchy

Also by Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy: A BBC Radio Collection
Maeve Binchy: Collected Stories
The Homecoming & Other Stories
The Garden Party & Other Stories
Firefly Summer
This Year It Will Be Different
Circle Of Friends
See all

Praise for Light A Penny Candle

'The ideal doorstopper to occupy long, dark evenings’

Daily Mail

She was just so aware of everyday people, and when I read her first book, Light a Penny Candle, I swore I knew every character in the book. I have read and re-read most of her books. I could not pick one, just all Maeve Binchy. She helps me switch off!

Veronica McSwiney, Irish Independent