![]() With a strong narrative drive that never flags, the story engages all the reader's emotions. Binchy's lyrical prose has a lilt and musicality that makes it a joy to read. Patrick's joy at his homecoming is slowly eroded, and his teenage son Kerry breaks hearts, including his father's. Other charactersall memorably portrayedcome to be resentful of the ``Yank's'' money while they reveal their own cupidity. Kate (Binchy's most splendid character) and her husband own a pub that is bound to suffer when the hotel opens. But tragedy strikes when a bulldozer working on the hotel site crushes Kate Ryan's spine her adaptation to life in a wheelchair is brave and touching. The Firefly Summer (Hardcover) The Penderwicks meets The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street in New York Times bestselling author Morgan Matsons middle grade. The consequences of Patrick's arrival there early in the '60s are often hilarious: the local aristocracyespecially the widows and spinstersvies for his attentions, while the villagers are beguiled by his largesse and by thoughts of the prosperity the hotel will bring. ![]() Mountfern is the ancestral home of Patrick O`Neill, a rough, rich American whose wealth comes from bars and restaurants, and whose dream is to build a grand hotel in Mountfern. Binchy's latest novel (after Light a Penny Candle ) is set in the tiny Irish backwater of Mountfern, home to a handful of families and typical of hundreds of similar hamlets in the British Isles where life is lived to the rhythm of the seasons. ![]()
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