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Book Review of The Glass Lake

The Glass Lake
The Glass Lake
Author: Maeve Binchy
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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(from the back)
"They say that if you went out on Saint Agnes' Eve and looked in the lake at suset you could see your future."

Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the serene waters of Lough Glass. Until the day she disappeared, leaving only a boat drifting upside down on the unfathomable lake that gave the town it's name. Ravishing Helen McMahon, the Dubliner with the fil-star looks and unfullfilled dreams, never belonged to Lough Glass, not the way her genial pharmacist-husband Martin belonged, or their spirited daughter Kit. suddenly she is gone, and Kit is haunted by the memory of her mother, seen through a window, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming down her face. Now Kit, too, has secrets: of the night she discovered the letter on Martins pillow and burned it, unopened. The night her mother was lost. The night everything changed forever...