The Glass Lake - Maeve Binchy

The Glass Lake, written by Maeve Binchy is the latest book that I have just read. The copy I have just read was borrowed from a friend purely as holiday reading matter. It was chosen mainly because at nearly 700 pages long it is a big chunky book, and I knew that it would last me all holiday. I must confess that prior to peeling back the first dog-eared page of this book I hadn't actually any knowledge of the Author. I did however use the wonders ...
...things have progressed considerably since The Glass Lake and are continuing to do so. Like almost all of her previous and prior works The Glass Lake is set in a small Irish Village. This particular Village is called Lough Glass, which gives the book its title. Although Lough Glass translates directly from the Irish Gaelic as the Green Lake, the lake on whose shores this tiny little Village nestles is affectionately referred to locally as the Glass ...

micksheff 16.11.2006 · Read full review
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I found The Glass Lake a very enjoyable read and it was very hard to put down. It is set in Ireland in a rural village. The story focuses on the main character Kit McMahon and her relationship with her mother Helen McMahon. Plot Summary Helen McMahon who was very beautiful and glamourous was deserted by her lover. She then marries Martin Mcmahon and moves to a small village called Lough Glass. They had two children Kit and Emmet. She was not very ...
...restless and was hankering after the man called Louis who had broken her heart before she has married Martin McMahon.. Then one day she vanishes leaving a note address to Martin. Kit her daughter finds the note before Martin does and thinks that her Mother had committed suicide. But she had runaway to England with her previous lover Louis. Kit found it hard growing up without her mother and with the stigma of her mother's death. They were Catholics ...

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...your usual genre preference. The story is centred around Kit McMahon and the consequences of her mother's death when Kit was 13. It shows the relationship and understanding she has with her mother, even as a child, and the sometimes tempestuous relationship she has with her best friend Clio Kelly. Maeve Binchy has a rare knack of really making you believe that you know the characters in the story, you get sucked in to their world and will find ...
...the ability to put herself into each very different character and make each one of them totally believable. You'll really believe that this town exists and that these people really live there. The story draws you in from the very start - the mystery of Helen McMahon, who on paper should be very content but realistically is restless and unhappy. She makes a decision that will have a profound effect on a lot of people's lives and then has to live ...

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...ago, for a holiday in the sun with my galpals - needless to say I pretty much ignored them the first few days, whilst I was totally absorbed in this book, and then they ignored me as they all borrowed it too!. I'd only ever read one of the authors books before this, so it was a lovely surprise how well her style and descriptions sat with me, and overwhelmed me. The story is centred around a young girl, Mary Katherine McMahon (or Kit for short) and ...
...a small irish town. The early pages describe Kit, her family, the town and people where she lives, and develop many of the characters beautifully, including her bossy friend Cliona, her gorgeous little brother Emmett and her mother Helen. They live in Lough Glass, a town around the shores of a lake nicknamed the glass lake. At the start of the novel, Kit is really worried about her mother, as she is acting very strangely.. One dreadful night, Kit's ...

deeleybopper 04.07.2005 · Read full review
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...as good as some of the author's earlier books, i.e echoes, light a penny candle. However, I couldn't have turned out to be more wrong. With Maeve Binchy's wit and humour, this is a really good read. It is about the trials and errors of a young girl and her close knit friends and family. The storyline is great and it's one of those books where the saying 'expect the unexpected' is extremely relevant. I would say the only danger in reading it is that ...

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...15. I had forgotten the story after so many years and having read all of Binchy's novels I decided to start on them again. This book is just wonderful. The story centres on Kit, a young girl from Lake Glass in Ireland. I'll try not to give away the whole story but in summary: When Kit is 12 her mother, Helen, disappears, and is presumed by everyone to be drowned in the lake. You find out pretty quickly that she didn't drown at all but that her one ...
...tell him this, but by the time the note is found, by Kit, Helen is already presumed to be in the lake. Kit therefore burns the note, fearing a suicide would mean her mother would be burried outside the churchyard. When a body is found the case is closed for the family in Ireland. However, when Helen learns of her 'death' from London, she begins to write to Kit, under the guise of Helen's friend. The story then tells how they correspond until Kit ...

tartlette83 21.02.2006 (13.03.2006) · Read full review
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