Level 4: Evening Class Book and MP3 Pack (Pearson English Graded Readers) - Softcover

Binchy, Maeve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408289547 ISBN 13: 9781408289549

Publisher: Pearson Education, 2011

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About this title

Review

It's the perfect gift: Laughter, the best medicine! From beloved author Maeve Binchy, who has captured the hearts of millions with her spectacular national bestsellers, including Circle of Friends and Tara Road. In Evening Class, she applies her signature warmth, wit and understanding to something new--a wickedly funny book for anyone who's checked into the hospital, headed for an operation or convalesced at home. Maeve Binchy can always be counted on to spin an involving tale about ordinary people that brings out the extraordinary in everyone. Here, she zooms in on the working-class of Dublin. Schoolteacher Aidan Dunne organises an evening class in Italian with the help of Nora O'Donoghue, an Irishwoman returning home after 26 years in Sicily. When the somewhat squashed-by-life denizens of the surrounding neighbourhood take the unexpected step of enrolling in the class, they find their lives transformed.

Binchy tells her story from the viewpoints of eight different characters and rewards both them and her readers with happy endings after the requisite rocky road. Reading a novel by Maeve Binchy is like catching up with old friends--you know everything will turn out fine in the end, but you're still interested in how things get that way.

Review

"Charming...engrossing...unforgettable.""--The Philadelphia Inquirer" "Good storytelling . . . Binchy deftly focuses on each character in turn, probing the hidden dramas of their lives.""--Chicago Tribune" "Reading one of Maeve Binchy's novels is like coming home.""--The Washington Post" A Main Selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club "From the Paperback edition."

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408289547
• ISBN 13: 9781408289549
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1