Although it's set during the period 1941 - 1956, it speaks to my own experience of living in Ireland as a foreigner, and all the cultural miscommunications that ensue. Light a Penny Candle is one of my favourite Maeve Binchy novels - the story of the English Elizabeth who's sent to live with the Irish Connor family during the Blitz. To be honest I think 3 stars is a bit mean- if I could I would have given 3.5 but 4 stars is just a step too far. If you haven't read Binchey before I wouldn't necessarily start with this one, Circle of Friends is a better starting point. Possibly but they'd need to change the ending! If this book were a film would you go see it? She really does understand the characters, every book she narrates she takes me to Ireland and back, her accents and interpretations of the characters are spot on. What does Kate Binchy bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book? I've listened to Firefly Summer & Circle of Friends both had more rounded characters and a more believable plot/ ending. If you’ve listened to books by Maeve Binchy before, how does this one compare? Rushed and out of character for the characters ending. Narration was top of class, great character development. What did you like best about Light a Penny Candle? What did you like least? Although it is easy to 'read' it is not an easy read - a book with no depth, it deals with real issues but in a loving non judgemental way, perhaps it is not too much to say that it makes you feel a better person to have spent time with the characters in the book. It made me laugh and cry and want it not to end and I cannot think that there are many people who would not find their life enriched with an encounter with Maeve Binchy's folk and this is a good place to start.
Maeve Binchy had the art and craft of the storyteller and her deceptively simple prose will carry you into the boisterous and loving arms of the O'Connor and then away again to the stifling constraints of life with Elizabeth's Father. The story is about an enduring friendship between two women but it is also about life with its love, joys and disappointments and moments of real anguish. I am so glad that I did so, Kate Binchy's gentle and loving narration does great justice to the book and is a joy to have spoken in your ears. This was, I believe the first of Maeve Binchy's books I read it many years ago and decided, on a whim, to download it as an audible book. A wonderful heartwarming, life affirming book
0 kommentar(er)
