Light Penny Candle Author:Maeve Binchy From the time in 1940 when shy, 10-year old Elizabeth Whie is evaacuated form wartime London and plunged into a large and contentious family in the Irish village of Kilgarret, she and Aisling O'Connor are destined to be closed friends-no matter their wildly different backgrounds and upbringing. How their lives resonate together and apart over t... more »he decades-in passion, in marriage, in tragey, and in quiet triumph-is the story this remarkable novel tells. It is one of those rare and notable works here, over an entrancingly long span, the world the author sets before us becomes totally our own.« less