The Glass Lake: A Novel - Softcover

Binchy, Maeve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345526813 ISBN 13: 9780345526816

Publisher: Dell Pub Co, 2011

Synopsis

Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the serene waters of Lough Glass. Until the day she disappeared, leaving only a boat drifting upside down on the unfathomable lake that gave the town its name. Ravishing Helen McMahon, the Dubliner with film-star looks and unfulfilled dreams, never belonged in Lough Glass, not the way her genial pharmacist-husband Martin belonged, or their spirited daughter Kit. Suddenly, she is gone and Kit is haunted by the memory of her mother, seen through a window, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming down her face. Now Kit, too, has secrets: of the night she discovered a letter on Martin’s pillow and burned it, unopened. The night her mother was lost. The night everything changed forever

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Review:

The Glass Lake is a sly, seductive and compulsively readable book, perfect for rainy afternoons and late nights in bed. In the tradition of her beloved novel Circle of Friends, Irish novelist Maeve Binchey offers a wonderful old-fashioned melodrama with a contemporary cast of compelling characters.

Review:

THE GLASS LAKE is Maeve Binchy at her spellbinding best - you'll never want it to end (WOMAN'S JOURNAL)

Maeve Binchy really knows what makes women tick. She crystallises their hopes, dreams and passions in her novels and now she has done it again in THE GLASS LAKE ... a marvellous read (DAILY MIRROR)

She is one of the few writers who can pull at your heartstrings ... The author's great skill is to draw you into the world she creates, so that reading her books is like gossiping with old friends (DAILY EXPRESS)

Maeve Binchy's work continues to inspire ... thought-provoking, warm and funny in equal measure (Woman)

You can see why, for a legion of female readers, Maeve Binchy is a one-woman opiate of the people (Evening Standard)

Binchy is a consummate storyteller who involves the reader in the world she creates... Binchy is a Dickens: she writes about the dilemmas of human beings with a backdrop which describes the manners and morals of a society (IRISH TIMES)

Drama, humour, warmth and great characters - it's what we expect from Maeve Binchy, one of the world's best-loved writers (WOMAN'S WEEKLY)

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell Pub Co
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0345526813
• ISBN 13: 9780345526816
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 757