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The Glass Lake

by Maeve Binchy

3.76 · rating details · 6,690 ratings · 375 reviews

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 its name. Ravishing Helen McMahon, the Dubliner with film-star looks and unfulfilled dreams, never belonged in Lough Glass, not the way her genial pharmacist-husband Martin...more

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Published September 4th 2007 by Dell (first published 1994)

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Aug 08, 2011

Lisa O. rated it

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Recommends it for: women who love too much

Recommended to Lisa O. by: Flannery and Maja

Shelves: adult-fiction

2.5/3 stars

Well, this should at least serve as an admonition to all women on how a MAN should never ever be the fulcrum around which a woman's life rotates, making him the centre of her universe.

The story - my first Maeve Binchy book ever - is set in the 50s and revolves around the lives of various families in the small village of Lough Glass, Ireland, during a span of about 10 years. Among this rather extensive set of characters, stars Helen McMahon alias Lena G...more

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Nov 25, 2008

Kelly rated it

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A light read that completely entertains.

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Apr 28, 2008

Carissa rated it

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Shelves: listened-to-audiobook, adult

listened to this one on audio–21 discs! holy longness. read by barbara caruso who is a masterful narrator, i was able to stick with this story until the end, but at about disc 9 i was wondering what the heck else the story was going to be about and… it kept going! by the end, i cared deeply for the main characters and was sad to see the story end. a story of serious miscommunications with dire, life-changing results. i liked it less than scarlet feather, but i think that was because s.f. had foo...more

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Apr 08, 2008

Ariel rated it

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WOW! ok so I really liked the beginning of this book. it was haunting & mysterious. and then i HATED one of the main characters. and i couldn't get over what an idiot she was. but i finished it. and it was only ok. and i don't recommend it to anyone! the only thing i liked about this book is that this horrible woman leaves her husband & family to be with another man... and it all falls apart with man #2. basically she gets what she deserves and regrets being an idiot. that was a TINY bit satisfy...more

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May 20, 2011

Cyndy Aleo rated it

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I might have become a Maeve Binchy fan after reading her novel Circle of Friends, but one of my all-time favorite books has to be her novel The Glass Lake, which also takes place in the 1950s in a small Irish town.

::: Lough Glass :::

Kit McMahon lives in the town of Lough Glass, which is on a large lake, with her mother Helen, father Martin, and brother Emmett. They have a comfortable existence, as Martin is the town's pharmacist, and Kit's best friend Clio is the daughter of ...moreI might have become a Maeve Binchy fan after reading her novel Circle of Friends, but one of my all-time favorite books has to be her novel The Glass Lake, which also takes place in the 1950s in a small Irish town.

::: Lough Glass :::

Kit McMahon lives in the town of Lough Glass, which is on a large lake, with her mother Helen, father Martin, and brother Emmett. They have a comfortable existence, as Martin is the town's pharmacist, and Kit's best friend Clio is the daughter of Martin's best friend, the town doctor Peter Kelly. In such a small town, everyone knows everyone else's business, and Kit's mother is often the stuff of gossip, seeming too glamorous and too out of step for the small town. When Helen suddenly disappears one night, Kit discovers a note left for Martin and burns it, assuming it's a suicide note and her mother will never be able to be buried in consecrated ground.

This one night sets off a chain of events for both Kit and Helen that change both their lives. Helen, as it turns out, has run off with her ex-lover, and Kit must muddle through her adolescence without a mother. Through a roundabout mail system utilizing the town hermit, Sister Madeleine, a presumed nun with questionable religious ties, Helen strikes up a relationship with Kit by pretending to be an old friend of herself. As the years progress, Helen's relationship with the man she ran off with changes as Kit grows up. A fateful school trip to London changes the balance of everything, and Kit wonders if she isn't destined to follow in her mother's footsteps.

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Trying to sum up over 750 pages taking place over almost ten years in this book seems nearly impossible. Much like Circle of Friends, The Glass Lake deals with growing up in 1950s Ireland, a society that had no divorce, no birth control legally available, and a culture so interwoven with the Catholic Church that it was impossible to separate religion from anything else.

What makes The Glass Lake different than (and in some respects, better than) Circle of Friends is the dual plot; life in Lough Glass continues, virtually unchanged from year to year, while Helen has a completely new life in London, and becomes, both in name and in personality, a completely different person than she was as Helen McMahon.

Binchy has always been one of my favorite authors when it comes to character development, mainly because she doesn't shy away from taking years to fully develop the characters. While it's hard to deal with the initial shock of Helen's abandonment of her husband and children, as the years go by and you see her relationship with this man, enough information is given to the reader to be able to construct an understanding of how things must have been even before the novel begins.

I wish I knew how she does it, but Binchy is able to juggle more characters in a novel than you would think possible. In The Glass Lake, there are eventually three locations: Lough Glass, Dublin, and London, each with its own cast. Binchy is able to not only make each character recognizable, but provides enough development that it's easy for the reader to keep track of all these people, even when they cross over to another location and another group of people.

The Glass Lake is a rich and engrossing read, and it's a book I've gone back and reread more than once, just because I find it so fascinating to watch characters age and develop. Binchy does such a wonderful job with her novels set in small towns in that era in Ireland that it almost feels like coming home to read another set in a similar location, and this is definitely one of her best.

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May 12, 2011

Amanda rated it

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Shelves: bought-copy, chick-lit

Kit McMahon is a young girl living in the small village of Lough Glass, where everyone knows each other. She is believed to live a charmed life - has a doting mother and father, a brother she gets on well with, many friends (including the shallow but vivacious Clio Kelly). One night Kit's mother Helen goes out walking and never comes back - after months of searching, a body is found and Kit mourns the mother she has lost. At the same time we start following the story of Lena Gray in London, an u...moreKit McMahon is a young girl living in the small village of Lough Glass, where everyone knows each other. She is believed to live a charmed life - has a doting mother and father, a brother she gets on well with, many friends (including the shallow but vivacious Clio Kelly). One night Kit's mother Helen goes out walking and never comes back - after months of searching, a body is found and Kit mourns the mother she has lost. At the same time we start following the story of Lena Gray in London, an up-and-coming businesswoman who loves Louis Gray with an intense and dangerous passion. The lives of Lena and Kit eventually collide with explosive results, leaving Kit considering hard the very nature of love.

Maeve Binchy novels are a gem whenever I need to reignite my passion for reading. They are long and rambling and gentle - incredibly cosy reads that require little true attention and merely pull the reader in for a time to the lives of these smalltown Irish folk. I adore them. That being said, The Glass Lake is a curious example - it's probably the Binchy I have read the most, and yet, after this read, I'm wondering exactly why this would be...

The main reason for this is that the central premise - which I gobbled up with delight as a youngster, and found extremely credible - is actually pretty far-fetched. I mean, Binchy sets it up pretty well and it does come as a result of some fairly disastrous decisions that seem almost reasonable, but, on this occasion, I found myself wondering how this central premise could possibly have ACTUALLY happened. I think I am looking at the novel from a) more modern eyes and b) the perspective of someone who has no real experience of Catholic religious beliefs. Possibly others would find the premise easier to swallow.

On top of this, there are some really horrible characters in this novel. Kit herself is fine - she's energetic and decisive and has a strong moral compass. The cast surrounding her are less sympathetic for the reader - we have a love rat, a doormat, a stuck-up so-called best friend *sighs* Just thinking about them makes me both frustrated and angry! I wanted to shake them and tell them to sort their lives out.

There was also an inadvised subplot involving a character called Sister Madeleine, which seemed to sit uneasily alongside the rest of the novel and could have been excised to make this a more streamlined tale.

So why did I read it so compulsively? Literally gulping it down? Because of Maeve Binchy's warmth. Her writing is exquisite in terms of carrying a reader along - beautifully simple and direct prose that wraps me like a warm blanket in front of a roaring fire. I think in all seriousness that, with Binchy's hand on the pen, I would quite happily read a shopping list she'd written! There is just something about her novels that make me smile - reading for the pure sake of enjoyment (which is something that occasionally becomes a little tough as a reviewer).

I would urge people with the desire to read something gentle, but with incisive observations on human nature, to pick up a Maeve Binchy novel. The Glass Lake is not her best, but is still a fine example. (less)

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Sep 25, 2010

Jane Stewart rated it

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Shelves: relationships-fiction

This book is about different types of people loving others. There was tragedy and sadness from unrequited loves.

A loves B. B loves C. C loves others. The first 400 pages were sad and a little tedious to get through. The last 350 pages were wonderful! One georgeous man was shallow and evil, always having short-term love affairs. Another gorgeous man was wild with women when young, but was faithful and good when he finally ended up with the right woman.

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Sex...moreThis book is about different types of people loving others. There was tragedy and sadness from unrequited loves.

A loves B. B loves C. C loves others. The first 400 pages were sad and a little tedious to get through. The last 350 pages were wonderful! One georgeous man was shallow and evil, always having short-term love affairs. Another gorgeous man was wild with women when young, but was faithful and good when he finally ended up with the right woman.

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Sexual language: none. Number of sex scenes: none. Setting: prior to 1995 in Lough Glass and Dublin, Ireland, and London, England. Copyright: 1995. Genre: relationships fiction.

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It was a good reminder of how loving the wrong person can ruin one's life. Lena was a doormat for Louis. Doing everything for him including pretending not to be angry when he would go off with other women. Her only goal was that he would come back to her later. Then, her daughter Kit fell in love with Stevie, who appeared to be similar to Louis. He had many affairs before he ended up with Kit, but, he was not like Louis which made for an interesting comparison. I loved the why and how Kit first asked out Stevie. She did it as a favor to someone else. I enjoyed how she was trying to flirt with him, feeling that he would see through her phony attempts, yet she was surprised that he liked what she thought of as "fake flirting". I loved their relationship, which began after page 440.

An interesting side story was Sister Madeleine, who lived in a hut as a hermit. Most of the local people would visit her for advice. Her guiding views of life were "to do the right thing" and that meant "to do what hurt nobody". People would tell her their secrets and she never revealed those secrets. She had an interesting way of talking so as to give good advice yet not reveal secrets from others.

Even though Lena was a doormat to Louis, I loved seeing her competent, smart business woman side. I loved how she talked Jessie into hiring her and then grew the business into something much larger and very successful, all the while giving credit to others. She made everyone else look great. She never took any credit for things, but it was understood that she was the reason behind the company's success. It was a wonderful talent which I think many people could benefit from if they could do something similar in the "real world".

As I mentioned, the first half of the book was a little hard to get through, but I'm definitely glad I read it. I know I will think of things from the book from time to time. I would have liked to have seen more from the point of view of Louis.(less)

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May 17, 2009

Amy Hillis rated it

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I love me some Maeve Binchy. When I read her books, I want to be Irish, own a pub, and live in a tiny town. I can hardly read one of her books without developing a fierce hankering for corned beef and cabbage.

In typical Binchy style - we're immediately drawn into the life of a simple family in a largely nondescript - yet still engaging - town. In this book, a mother struggles continuing life in her family and she makes a choice that changes her husband, children, and self forever....more

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Jul 07, 2009

Angela rated it

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I liked this book at the very start. You follow two young girls, Kit (Mary Katherine) and Clio, while learning about their town of Lough Glass. The whole story is more about Kit and her family. Her father, Martin, is the town pharmacist. Her mother, Helen, was in love with another man when she met Martin and married. Her younger brother, Emmett, has a stutter that means he gets teased a lot by the other children.

The pivotal point in the book comes when Kit, and others in town, re...more

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Jul 11, 2009

Heather rated it

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Set in the 1950’s in a small Irish Village of Lough Glass, Maeve Binchy tells the story of Kit McMahon. When Kit is 12 her mother disappears believed to be drowned. The story follows the lives of Kit, her family and those they interact with exploring how this tragedy impacts on everyone for many years to come. Kit as a character is developed well and I became quite fond of her. The book whilst set in Ireland was purely focused on relationships and there was a sense of history but the political i...more

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Jul 08, 2010

Linda rated it

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I think I read this book a few years ago. While I couldn't remember much about it, it did seem a bit familiar. As with all of Maeve Binchy's books, it takes place in Ireland - a place I would love to visit!!

This book tells the story of Kit McMahon, whose mother is presumed to have drowned in Glass Lake when Kit is a young girl. Though it looks like an accident, Kit thinks it might have been suicide, in which case as a Catholic she would be doomed to Hell. Because she thinks this, whe...more

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Apr 01, 2009

Diana rated it

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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 its name. Ravishing Helen McMahon, the Dubliner with the film-star looks and unfulfilled dreams, never belonged in 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 throu...more

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Jan 05, 2012

Lyn rated it

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Such a heart breaking book. Helen married a man who she thought was safe, only to be swept away by the man she'd loved with all of her soul. He was able to take her away from her husband and 2 children, to live in exciting London. Helen, loves this man, but takes a blind eye to her situation. This book touched me in that her romance with the love of her life takes place in her late 30's to mid 40's. Most books about the love of ones life take place when the characters are very young. Like ...more

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Nov 23, 2011

Kathy rated it

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My library book club is reading Minding Frankie, Binchy's newest book. Since it was hard to find at the library or used I decided to read The Glass Lake, which I already owned. I can't believe I bought, even for only $.50 a 757 page "romance novel." I was never bored and seldom lost track of the large cast of characters. I was there (for what felt like years) watching the children grow, and seeing people make selfish decisions that affected their whole life and sometimes the whole comm...more

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Aug 22, 2011

Nicola rated it

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Shelves: 2011-books

Despite not caring too much for a few of the characters I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Lena made a very difficult decision, yet had no idea how serious the consequences would be. Perhaps if Kit had not burned the letter they would have eventually gotten over this--but then what would this novel be about??
I did keep hoping to find something to like about Clio. How could such a strong and self-assured woman like Kit maintain such a useless friendship? I suppose Clio admitting the truth about S...more

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Jul 03, 2009

Chris rated it

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Shelves: for-fun-reads

I just finished reading “The Glass Lake.” For me to take on a 700+ page book is incredible in and of itself plus read a book club book at the same time. My daughter had encouraged me to read it and I finally felt this month that I could read it along with my book club book. I got really involved with the characters and character development in “The Glass Lake.” The author really pulled me into all of the relationships and how they were intertwined. I was frustrated and upset at Helen and...more

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Mar 31, 2010

Rebecca rated it

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Perhaps I'm too hard hearted but I felt like giving a good beating to most of the characters in this book. Let us begin with a short plot summary shall we?

In the tiny town of Lough Glass Ireland, Kit McMahon's mother Helen has always been viewed as an outsider who never settled into small town life when she married the town's pharmacist Martin. One night she goes missing and the McMahon family boat is found overturned in the lake, where Helen had last been seen walking. There are wh...morePerhaps I'm too hard hearted but I felt like giving a good beating to most of the characters in this book. Let us begin with a short plot summary shall we?

In the tiny town of Lough Glass Ireland, Kit McMahon's mother Helen has always been viewed as an outsider who never settled into small town life when she married the town's pharmacist Martin. One night she goes missing and the McMahon family boat is found overturned in the lake, where Helen had last been seen walking. There are whispers of suicide in the air, so when the little girl Kit find a letter from her mother addressed to her father, she assumes her mother has thrown herself into the lake without even reading it. Being a Catholic Kit knows that if her mother's suicide note is discovered, it means Helen will never be buried in consecrated ground within the Church, nor have other Catholics mourn over her. Instead she will lie in an unmarked grave where cattle and livestock will be free to roam over her earthly remains; such is the decree for Catholics who commit the sin against hope, suicide. No child would want this for their mother and so Kit burns the letter while the search continues. When a badly decomposed body is found, it is ruled as an accident, since no one saw the letter and the body is buried in consecrated ground. Only trouble is that the suicide note wasn't actually a suicide note, it was a note telling Martin that Helen was leaving him for another man, and the body was so badly decomposed it wasn't Helen, but no one could tell. Helen ran off to live with the love of her life a rascal by the name of Louis Gray in London. She finds out that the town thinks she is dead, but decides against rectifying the situation as she assumes Martin got her letter and made up a story about her death. Life goes on, and Helen writes to her daughter pretending to be a friend of her mother's from long ago, which worked out fine, until a grown up Kit finds her mother living in London. A love story without a happy ending or even an ending really.

As far as characters go, there is Martin the pharmacist whose boundless love for his first wife Helen is pity inspiring. He knew she did not love him when he married her, but hoped her heart would change. Binchy rewards him by giving him a happy second marriage after a few years of being a 'widower'.

Helen McMahon: left 2 children and an adoring husband in a secure and comfortable home to run away with the man she loved. Her all consuming passion for Louis Gray leads to her giving up her life as she knows it, and later ruins the rest of her life.

Louis Gray: A selfish yet charming scoundrel who has many affairs behind Helen's back before marrying a girl with money years younger than himself. The only good thing about him is that he gets a good beating towards the end of the book.

Kit McMahon: thought she honoured her mother's memory by preventing the knowledge of her suicide. When she finds out her mother lives, she has to acknowledge that her part in burning Helen's letter went a long way to creating the mess the family must live through. Tough and slightly spunky, she sues at least one of her acquaintances and ends up in love with the local heartbreaker who decides he wants no other heart but hers.

Just Not Good. The only interesting thing is a moral quandary Kit finds herself in. She knows her mother is alive but her father doesn't. Since he believes she is dead he marries another lady. Essentially Kit must decide either to let the bigamous marriage go on, or to tell her family the very painful truth and destroy her father's chances of matrimonial happiness. She decides not to rock the boat and her father remarries.

A bad Binchy.(less)

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Sep 01, 2011

Jeane rated it

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Shelves: ireland

I read several Maeve Binchy books and always liked the fact that I started reading them around the moment that I was also moving to Dublin. All her stories are set in or around Dublin or always have some link, part in the book. Every one of her stories start a bit slow, a lot of introducing the different characters who will play all their own part in the story but after that it normally starts to go faster and get interesting or addicted. The glass lake has been very slow for its first hundred p...more

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Jul 29, 2011

Jayne Charles rated it

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Some elements of this were great: the basic idea of the disappearance of the main character's mother, the way in which the central misunderstanding occurs, the way this alters the family dynamics. All pretty gripping. Other bits I didn't enjoy so much. When the story shifted to Lena and her transformation of the office, some of the interest was lost for me. Also the party in the hotel storyline was a bit tedious. Events became a bit melodramatic towards the end, and lost me a bit. Unusual for a ...more

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Nov 05, 2009

Alisa Snow added it · review of another edition

A very intriguing premise for a story. An Irish housewife decides to leave her family to be reunited with an old flame. She leaves a letter for her husband explaining her decision. Her daughter finds the sealed envelope and, believing it to be a suicide note, she burns it - because if it is discovered that her mother committed suicide, then she would not be allowed to be buried in the church cemetary. It is years later when mother and daughter happen to be reunited and the truth is discovere...more

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Mar 26, 2010

Jeanne rated it

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Great story. Author gives a lot of detail on characters and places. About a women madly in love with a good looking man who ends up leaving her, so she marries someone else, has children, and he comes back for her. She was always in love with him so she goes off with him again. As fate would have it, she leaves a letter, her eldest daughter finds and burns, explaining she is leaving, and everyone thinks she drowns in the lake. Great story lots of twists and turns....

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Nov 15, 2009

Alanna rated it

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I started out not wanting to like this book: the basic premise drove me nuts, with the miscommunications and the mother abandoning her family. But despite the rocky beginning, it really pulled me in, and I actually really liked the lessons one could draw from it in the end. The writing is fairly simple, but the sheer number of characters and their very honest personalities (some of them truly annoying, but not unlike people I've known!) made for an interesting story.

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Apr 20, 2011

Jumana rated it

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Even tough I enjoyed this book it was only because of Kit and Stevie and Kit and her mother. All the other bits like planning the party and making the hotel look good were pointless and I found myself skipping those pages to get to the bits where something actually happens. But other than the bits that dragged on about irrelevant things, this book ws really good and I found myslef being emotionally drawn into it and felt like I knew the characters.

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Oct 18, 2009

M. Gray rated it

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I am especially impressed by two aspects of Binchy's writing: the translucence of the writing (I submerge myself into the story without noticing sentence structure, word choice, etc.), and the gradual characterization of each of her main characters. This is the second book I've read by this author and in both cases I felt as though I knew each of the main characters intimately. It isn't a showy piece, but extremely well written and entertaining. And it would have to be, because it was LONG yet I...more

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Dec 21, 2009

Claire rated it

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I LOVED this book. It was so engrossing and enthralling and all those over adjectives that start with e. The main character was so relatable, and I especially enjoyed her tumultuous friendship with Clio - it was so realistic.
But really, I just love how Binchy writes. The way she skips from scene to scene keeps you interested.
And, SUCH satisfying ending.
All in all, a book I will revisit time and time again, despite its 700+ page count :)

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Jun 04, 2010

Michele Minor rated it

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This book is about the lives of Kit and Helen McMahon, who live in Lough Glass Ireland. Helen is the wife of the local pharmacist in Lough Glass until the night that everyone thinks that she drowned in the lake. She left a letter behind explaining her disapperance though her daughter, Kit had burned it without reading it. In actuality though Helen had run off to London with her first love and lived with him. She keeps a correspondence with her daughter using her new identity.

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Jan 25, 2008

Sue rated it

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Shelves: fiction, read-2005

The story is about hope, love, white lies and betrayal in a family saga setting. There's interesting post-war social history too, as we see rapidly changing attitudes towards women's roles in society, divorce, and the issue of unmarried mothers.

The book was well-written without being at all boring despite its length. There are several subplots that work alongside the main story of Kit's growing up, and just enough action for my tastes. The ending was satisfactory without being too ne...more

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Sep 13, 2010

Donna rated it

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Gosh - I just got drawn into this story of so many live!! The paths they choose, the regrets they had, and the lessons they learned. It takes place over time so you get to see how people change, grow up, grow together and/or grow apart. All our choices lead down paths - the consequences/outcomes/blessings of which we can't always see - and many times, we can't ever go back and change the path we took. Great book!!!

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Feb 17, 2010

Patricia rated it

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This was another great book and one very close to my heart. It is when a non-Jewish person falls in love with a Jewish person. It is so easy to say 'oh it's fine' when it is happening in somebody else's family but when it is your own children that are marrying somebody of a different faith it isn't quite so fine. At least it wasn't until I read this book and saw just how fine it really is.

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Jun 30, 2009

Helynne rated it

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My mother is a big Maeve Binchey fan (in fact, she has a whole line-up of Binchey novels that takes up most of a shelf). She mailed me her copy of The Glass Lake, which is quite hefty and long, but very interesting from start to finish. The story takes place in mid-20th-century Ireland and England, and involves a adulterous affair, a runaway mother, a secret correspondence, heartbreak, reconciliation . . . all too complex to describe. But this is an interesting look at what happens when so...more

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