![]() ![]() ![]() The main characters - 10-year-old Clare O'Brien, daughter of a shopkeeper, and 15-year-old David Power, only child of the local doctor and his rather snooty wife - are appealing and easy to root for from the start, though events that happen toward the end of this (long!) novel put them in a different light. Because this is one of her earlier books, it's a more cohesive story, not a series of connected character studies (the way, say, is) in which we see the same events through the eyes of different characters. I really enjoy Binchy's stories set in small Irish villages and the way she depicts the conservative, insular Irish culture changing through the years (in this case, the 1940s-1960s). ![]()
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