Light A Penny Candle: Her classic debut bestseller

Maeve Binchy

Sep 2010 · Random House

About this ebook

'Maeve Binchy! I love her stories and have since Light a Penny Candle.' Tom Hanks
'Wonderfully warm and involving' Katie Fforde
'Binchy's novels are never less than entertaining' Sunday Times
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A friendship nothing could destroy.

Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, the shy Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the O'Connor family in Kilgarret, Ireland, where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with the lively, boisterous Aisling O'Connor.

Neither of them were to know it would become the most important friendship of their lives. Their bond is unshakeable, enduring over turbulent years of change and chaos, joy and sorrow, soaring dreams - and searing betrayals . . .

With warmth, wit and great compassion, Maeve Binchy tells a magnificent story of two women, bound together in a friendship that nothing could tear apart - not even the man who threatened to come between them forever.
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'Binchy's novels are never less than entertaining' Sunday Times
'What better books to raise the spirits than the gentle, insightful Irish tales of Maeve Binchy?' HELLO! Magazine
'If any author can help you survive lockdown, it's Binchy' Daily Mail
'I find myself yearning for the rain-soaked watercolour writing of Maeve Binchy' Guardian Best Comfort Reads

Ratings and reviews

A good read till you turn the last page and the story ends but leaves the storyline unfinished a very poor ending otherwise i would of given it a 5

This was a great book: hard to believe it was her first!!! I was captivated from start to finish by the complicated story line and the two main characters. ❤️🌹🍀

Won't spoil it, but would have liked to see it end differently...overall great read though

About the author

Maeve Binchy was born in Dublin, and went to school at the Holy Child Convent in Killiney. She took a history degree at UCD and taught in various girls' schools, writing travel articles in the long summer holidays. In 1969 she joined the Irish Times and for many years she was based in London writing humorous columns from all over the world. She is the author of five collections of short stories as well as twelve novels including Circle of Friends, The Copper Beech, Tara Road, Evening Class and The Glass Lake. Maeve Binchy died on 30 July 2012. She is survived by her husband, the writer Gordon Snell.