Scarlet Feather

Critics Review

• SCARLET FEATHER has all the distinguishing Binchy characteristics: human interest, pacy plot, judicious humour, warm sentiment … You can see why, for a legion of female readers, Maeve Binchy is a one-woman opiate of the people

  EVENING STANDARD

• This is a wonderfully warm-hearted book with an endearing cast of characters and the Irish atmosphere that is Maeve Binchy’s trademark

  THE LADY

• Maeve is just like a good fisherwoman: she teases you, reels you in and by the time you try to get away, you are well and truly hooked. I literally could not put the book down by the time I got to the last quarter

  SUNDAY EXPRESS

• This is Binchy at her finest

  WOMAN AND HOME

• If you’re a lover of Maeve Binchy’s warm, engrossing novels, you’re in for a treat … [a] tale of love, heartbreak and laugher. You’ll be hooked by the characters from the start and the fine storytelling simply sweeps you along

  WOMAN'S REALM

• The storytelling is, as always, confident, sharp and funny

  SUNDAY TIMES

• SCARLET FEATHER has that classic Maeve Binchy component: the readability factor. And if leisure palls for Maeve, it’s blindingly apparent there are more novels inside her. The penny candle’s still burning

  IRISH INDEPENDENT

• What is Maeve Binchy’s magic? Every time she publishes a novel the race is on to the armchair or the poolside seat, telephones fall eerily silent … Her great gift is to suck her reader into the drama of everyday lives without fuss … She relies on dialogue and on keeping up a cracking pace

  DAILY MAIL

• Yet again she has created a story of unexpected twists and turns in the lives of wholly believable people with whom you can’t help feeling involved

  THE OLDIE

• Her story-telling talents are never in question … Scarlet Feather is one of Binchy’s best. Reading it is as comforting as curling up by a fire with cocoa, toast and treacle

  BOOKS IRELAND

• The words “Irish warmth” are repeatedly used in reference to a Binchy novel and I believe that this keynote of authorial warmth is one of the compelling aspects of her writing … 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 … the Binchy public will not be disappointed at storyline or resolution

  IRISH TIMES

• Maeve is a storyteller, she has an ear for dialogue and an eye for character and she’s employed these gifts to their full potential … SCARLET FEATHER has that classic Maeve Binchy component: the readability factor

  IRISH INDEPENDENT

• 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