Light a Penny Candle

Binchy, Maeve

ISBN 10: 0553476998 ISBN 13: 9780553476996

Publisher: Random House Audio, 1996

Synopsis

The lives of Elizabeth White, the daughter of a troubled English marriage, and headstrong Irishwoman Aisling O'Connor resonate together and apart, as they--and their countries--emerge from the turmoil and war-torn horrors of the 1940s. Read by Kate Binchy. Book available.

About this title

About the Author:

Maeve Binchy was born in County Dublin and educated at the Holy Child convent in Killiney and at University College, Dublin. After a spell as a teacher she joined The Irish Times. Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, was published in 1982, and she went on to write more than twenty books, all of them bestsellers. Several have been adapted for film and television, most notably Circle of Friends and Tara Road, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. She was married to writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell for thirty-five years. She passed away in 2012 at the age of seventy-two.

From AudioFile:

Shipped out of WWII-battered London by her mother, 10-year-old evacuee Elizabeth White moves in with friends, the O'Connors, in Ireland. In a book that spans three decades, author Maeve Binchy follows pale, timid Elizabeth and her red-haired, Irish-Catholic "sister," Aisling, through first loves, weddings, drunken brawls, funerals, and births. Reader Kate Binchy, the author's cousin, nimbly carries the listener from England to Ireland and back again. She casts a warm spell as she makes each character come alive, from Elizabeth's staid father, to her roguish lover, to the Polish merchant who teaches her about valuing herself. Like the title's "penny candle," Binchy's personalities glow lingeringly in the listener's mind. E.V. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Audio
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0553476998
• ISBN 13: 9780553476996
• Binding: Audio Cassette
• Number of pages: 3