Sharon D. reviewed on 11/27/2005 + 224 more book reviews

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Maeve Binchy has got to be one of my most favorite writers, and this book of hers is everything that I would expect from her. She makes you laugh, cry, and care about the characters in her stories, you become totally wrapped up in them. Her warmth and sympathy make the daily struggles of ordinary people become heroic, and turn storytelling into art. Of course what else could be expected of an Irish lass. After all the Irish are the storytellers of the world.
In this book the Irish town of Shancarrig young people carve their initials - and those of their lovers - into the copper birch tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig's closed doors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realizes that not everything in the placid village is what it seems... Secrets in Shancarrig's shadows are starting to be revealed, from innocent vanities and hidden loves to crimes of the heart and even murder.

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