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The Glass Lake

By: Maeve Binchy
Narrated by: Kate Binchy
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 'THE GLASS LAKE is Maeve Binchy at her spellbinding best - you'll never want it to end' Woman's Journal

'Maeve Binchy really knows what makes women tick. She crystallises their hopes, dreams and passions in her novels and now she has done it again in THE GLASS LAKE ... a marvellous read' Daily Mirror

Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, a place where nothing changes - until the day Kit's mother disappears and Kit is haunted by the memory of her mother, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming down her face.

Now Kit, too, has secrets: of the night she discovered a letter and burned it, unopened. The night her mother was lost. The night everything changed forever...

(p) Audible Ltd 1995 Family Life Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Romance Women's Fiction

Critic Reviews

THE GLASS LAKE is Maeve Binchy at her spellbinding best - you'll never want it to end
Maeve Binchy really knows what makes women tick. She crystallises their hopes, dreams and passions in her novels and now she has done it again in THE GLASS LAKE ... a marvellous read
She is one of the few writers who can pull at your heartstrings ... The author's great skill is to draw you into the world she creates, so that reading her books is like gossiping with old friends
Maeve Binchy's work continues to inspire ... thought-provoking, warm and funny in equal measure
You can see why, for a legion of female readers, Maeve Binchy is a one-woman opiate of the people
Binchy is a consummate storyteller who involves the reader in the world she creates... Binchy is a Dickens: she writes about the dilemmas of human beings with a backdrop which describes the manners and morals of a society
Drama, humour, warmth and great characters - it's what we expect from Maeve Binchy, one of the world's best-loved writers
A great raconteur in life, this novel displays Binchy's impressive power of storytelling, with a plot that grows increasingly high stakes with every hundred pages. She has a gift with character too ... Unsurprisingly, THE GLASS LAKE is one of the all-time best-selling books in Ireland. It is wonderful to read a book that had me wanting to read "just one more page" (Jamie O'Connell, author of DIVING FOR PEARLS)
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relaxing, done with the beautiful irish accent. easy to listen to while getting lost in craft project.

lovely

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I loved this! A great story well performed. I was sorry to finish it. Highly recommend 🙋‍♀️😍

A great story and performance

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I loved the pace of this book and the intricacies of the story line. I couldn’t wait to listen to it each day.

Gripping and Touching Story

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lots of laughter and tears. fabulous narrator. easy to listen to. I can't recommend it enough.

I loved this book

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So disappointing, one of my favourite books, to listen to over 20 hours and then it is missing all the fabulous bits that tie this book all together. Such a shame as the narrator is fabulous. Needs to be revisited and the ending added in correctly

Missing end of book

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