- Fiction, Villages, Country life, Pastoral fiction
In the Irish town of Schancarrig, the young people carve their initials--and those of their loves-into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig's closed doors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realizes that not everything in the placid village is what it seems.From the Hardcover edition.
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- earnestironic
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- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Maeve Binchy
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 404
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press, Random House Publishing Group, Knaur Taschenbuch
- Editions
- 51
- Language
- Spanish, French, tur, English
- ISBN
- 9781857979992
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“Father Gunn knew that their housekeeper Mrs. Kennedy could have done it all much better than he would do it.”
Maeve Binchy was born on 28 May 1940 in Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland, the eldest child of four. Her parents were very positive and provided her with a happy childhood. Despite the fact she describes herself as an overweight child it was her parents attitude that gave her the confidence to accept herself for who she is today. She studied at University College Dublin and was a teacher for a while. She also loved travelling and this was how she found her niche as a writer. She liked going to all different kinds of places such as a Kibbutz in Israel and worked in a camp in the United States. It was whilst she was away that she sent letters home to her parents. They were so impressed with these
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