This book, set in a small Irish country village, follows a group of school children, from childhood through to parenthood. I have always loved Maeve Binchy's stories she's such a marvelous storyteller. Reading this book felt like being cuddled in a big old comfy armchair safe, secure, and blissfully knowing that no matter the trials and challenges the characters in the book encounter, all will be well in the end. I really didn’t want it to end and I wouldn’t have minded being invited into even more of the villager’s homes, hearts, and minds. The characters are all so well-done, and the story so satisfying, I couldn’t help but draw it out as long as I could. Perception is such an amazing force and probably doesn’t receive the respect – nor the fear, perhaps – that it deserves. It is very deftly done and highlights yet again how people can live in the same place and share a moment, a decade, a life and yet experience it so differently. As in real life, each individual experienced their life and the other people in the village from their own perspective, through their own lenses, tinted by their own conditioning and growth.
#COPPER BEECH SERIES#
This particular book was presented in a series of character spotlights with all of them tying together. One of them elicits far more empathy in this reader than the other. For instance, there is a big difference between someone giving up on something out of disgust and giving up on something out of despair. Part of the specialness in her writing seems to me to be choice of language. The endings are always positive and affirming, but the pathway to the ending is layered with the grit and gravel of real life. She does so with delicacy, sensitivity, and a garden of compassion.Īre her books all rainbows and unicorns? Not by any stretch of the imagination. She does not do this ruthlessly or clinically, like a surgeon making a deep cut. In the 27 years since then she has continued to produce books that are in-depth explorations into people’s hearts and minds. The first time I read one of her books it was 1990. The endings are always positive a There is something very special about Maeve Binchy’s writing. Are her books all rainbows and unicorns? Not by any stretch of the imagination. She does so with delicacy, sensitivity, and a garden of compassion.
There is something very special about Maeve Binchy’s writing.
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