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  <title><![CDATA[The Copper Beech]]></title>
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  <default_description>In the Irish town of Schancarrig, the young&#160;&#160;people carve their initials-and those of their loves --&#160;&#160;into the copper beech tree in front of the&#160;&#160;schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest,&#160;&#160;who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig's&#160;&#160;closed doors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who&#160;&#160;knows all the rest, realizes that not everything&#160;&#160;in the placid village is what it seems. Unexpected&#160;&#160;passions and fear are bringing together the lives&#160;&#160;of so many, such as the sensitive new priest and&#160;&#160;Miss Ross, the slight, beautiful schoolteacher...&#160;&#160;Leonora, the privileged daughter of the town's&#160;&#160;richest family and Foxy Dunne, whose father did time&#160;&#160;in jail... and Nessa Ryan, whose parents run Ryan's&#160;&#160;Hotel, and two very different young men. For now&#160;&#160;the secrets in Shancarrig's shadows are starting to&#160;&#160;be revealed, from innocent vanities and hidden&#160;&#160;loves to crimes of the heart... and even to murder.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1992</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Maeve Binchy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ 'The Copper Beech' is a series of interwoven character studies, which tell different parts of a story of a small town community in Ireland, in the middle and late twentieth century.  It opens with the description of a large beech tree, which gives shade in the grounds of a primary school.  The scho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13493312">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to admit that I sometimes get a sense of deja vu when starting any of Binchy's books. Her style is very much her own and taking any chapter from any of her books you can immediately tell it is a Bincky book. However, I think that that is one of the things that appeals to me about her as a wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6355805">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Copper Beech is just a standard Binchy novel.  The characters and setting were very typical Binchy.  As with The Silver Wedding, each chapter was about one character, and I found some of their individual stories interesting, or at least with the potential to be interesting had they been develope...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8372751">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book simply because its author was Irish--I'm into all things Irish these days.  The author tells the stories, one at a time, of eight schoolchildren in a small Irish village who carve their initials on graduation day into the huge copper beech tree beside the school.  The stories i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20653345">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Shancarrig, the copper beech tree stands in front of the local schoolhouse. This tree is the place where school children traditionally carve their initials and those of their loves. Of course there's a story behind each of the names on the trunk of that tree, and this book explores some of the in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46124534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36718313">
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  <date_added>Sat Nov 01 19:26:59 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 03 19:54:18 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite Maeve Binchy book that I've read to date. I've yet to find another person who feels the same way, so perhaps I'm the odd woman out, but I don't mind. I simply got immersed in the story and found it easy to relate to the characters especially Chris. <br/>I found the idea that eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36718313">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Never judge a book club member by her cover. There was this lady in my former book group whom I didn't know and when she chose this book I just knew she'd picked it up at the check-out line at Albertson's. Wrong. Maeve Binchy is a good storyteller and her characters are as real as their lives are no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16660235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A huge copper beech tree sits in the school yard in Shancarrig and everyone has weitten their names in the tree through out the years. From ryan's Hotel to Barna Woods, where the gypsies came each year, from Nellie Dunn's sweet shop to FatherGunn's church, the tenor of life in this small Irish villa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51133850">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66289767">
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this story very much. It centers around a cooper beech growing outside an old school building in the small town of Shancarig in Ireland. As the children graduate from the first level of this school they carve their names or initials in the trunk of the tree and this story captures the live...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66289767">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah Maeve Binchy...my favorite author when I want to turn the brain off and nestle myself snugly in her homey, cozy pages. Copper Beech tells of the story of the town of Shancarrig and its various citizens. As with most Binchy books, the characters harbor many secrets and hidden desires that makes fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59758364">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[   I listened to this one on tape and enjoyed the Irish accent as well as the story.  I had started it once before but didn’t get past the first chapter.  After reading other Binchy books I went back to this one and found it enjoyable.  They are light and cozy but with enough of a plot and conflic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21253527">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 27 04:54:47 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eight children once carved thier names on the trunk of the great copper beech which shaded the schoolhouse in Shancarrig.  Now those children are grown up.  For each one, Shancarrig holds special memories - some too private ever to be told<br/><br/>From Ryan's Hotel to Barna Woods where the gypsie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56834635">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i will someday stop typing this, but i feel COMPELLED to review the books because i think that is AT LEAST HALF the point of this whole website!  the thing is, as i've written before, i read SO MANY of them SO long ago that i no longer know how to rate them.  but i DO want to acknowledge that i have...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54204224">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68389690">
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    <body><![CDATA[A tale of the lives of the individuals who live in a small village in Ireland and how their lives are intertwined with one another, because it is such a small village.  The small Catholic school is the center of this story. The author looks back on their relationships in school and what becomes of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68389690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63855201">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first Binchy book I read and I fell in love instantly.  I love how she writes about one person and then the next chapter another and after about five or six chapters the people's lives start to intertwine.  I also appreciate how she tells stories that are real and as such don't end &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63855201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36205844">
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    <body><![CDATA[In what Ursula K. Leguin calls a “story suite” Maeve Binchy tells the tales of individual villagers from a small village in Ireland.  The characters lives intertwine form an equisite story of Ireland in a backwater village in the 50s and 60s.<br/>	Binchy creates amazing detail viewing the chara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36205844">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another classic Binchy ... the author tells the story of each character as a separate part in the book, and then in the end, they are all brought together. This is similar to how she wrote &quot;Evening Classes.&quot; This book was a quick easy read, and I wouldn't call it my favorite, but I did enj...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is actually one story told from several points of view.  A small Irish town, a small school, and all the ways that everyone is connected.  I loved the gentle way the folks looked out for and protected the less able child.  This book makes me long for a simpler time.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[We recently acquired a Jo-Sha account in Ireland and I told him my husband and I are obsessed with Maeve Binchy (who is Irish and most of her books are about Ireland). He said he's never read her but has heard of her. <br/><br/>This was another wonderful character drama with layers and layers of n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72452183">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am almost done with this. 20 or so pages from the end. Nice light reading. The opening story is a downer, but most of the rest are not as sad. I like her later books better. It  was pretty good. Interesting.]]></body>
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