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The Copper Beech
- Author
- Maeve Binchy
- Narrator
- Kate Binchy
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 23 April 2015
- Run Time
- 11 hours 17 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Under Junior Assistant Mistress Maddy Ross's careful gaze the children play, but out of school Maddy's gaze lingers where it shouldn't. Maura Brennan, a bundle of fun from the rough end of town, plays with her pals: leap year baby Eddie Barton, the apple of his mother's eye, and Nessa Ryan, who little realises as she carves his name at the roots of the copper beech on the very last day of school that she'll get a lot more from one of her schoolmates than her first shy kiss.
The copper beech is the gateway to Maeve Binchy's marvellous portrait of a small Irish town whose untroubled surface conceals the passions, rivalries, friendships, ambitions and jealousies beneath.
Read by Kate Binchy
(p) 1993 Audible Ltd
Critics Review
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Maeve Binchy is a master storyteller
NEW YORK TIMES
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You want to read Maeve Binchy's books as fast as she seems to have written them. This one fairly gallops along because her apparently spontaneous and casual manner covers masterly plotting ... It is all very satisfactory
INDEPENDENT
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THE COPPER BEECH is as soothing as a cup of tea
PEOPLE
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Binchy makes you laugh, cry, and care. Her warmth and sympathy render the daily struggles of ordinary people heroic and turn storytelling into art
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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Maeve Binchy's marvellous portrait of a small Irish town whose untroubled surface conceals the passions, rivalries, friendships, ambitions and jealousies beneath
LOVE READING
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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 story line or resolution
IRISH TIMES
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Binchy ... is a class act
DAILY EXPRESS
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Maeve Binchy's novels are just the kind of comforting companions so many women can't wait to take to bed. ...Binchy's prose flows as naturally as conversation with a good friend
THE LADY
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Maeve Binchy's work continues to inspire ... thought-provoking, warm and funny in equal measure
WOMAN
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This is Binchy at her very best, telling stories with charm, humour and pathos and giving us one of the most stunning feel-good endings I can remember
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Details
- Author
- Maeve Binchy
- Narrator
- Kate Binchy
- Duration
- 11 hours 17 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 April 2015
- ISBN
- 9781409154082
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Modern and Contemporary romance, Family saga / generational saga fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Nostalgia: general, Primary and middle schools
Synopsis
By the school house at Shancarrig stands a copper beech, its bark scarred with the names and dreams of the pupils who have grown up under its branches. Under Junior Assistant Mistress Maddy Ross's careful gaze the children play, but out of school Maddy's gaze lingers where it shouldn't. Maura Brennan, a bundle of fun from the rough end of town, plays with her pals: leap year baby Eddie Barton, the apple of his mother's eye, and Nessa Ryan, who little realises as she carves his name at the roots of the copper beech on the very last day of school that she'll get a lot more from one of her schoolmates than her first shy kiss.The copper beech is the gateway to Maeve Binchy's marvellous portrait of a small Irish town whose untroubled surface conceals the passions, rivalries, friendships, ambitions and jealousies beneath.Read by Kate Binchy(p) 1993 Audible Ltd
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