A Few of the Girls

A Few of the Girls by Maeve Binchy      Audio Book: 11 hours     Hardback Book:  336 pages         

If I had to describe Maeve Binchy’s writing in one word, it would be, “touching.”     Her stories are funny – laugh out loud at times – sometimes, so deeply sad when she introduces you to the occasional character that is desperately lonely or whose life seems so unfair, so unfulfilling or so unjust you will feel the person’s pain even taste the salt of their tears she is an extremely clever writer because she captures not just the reader’s attention, but, more so, the reader’s emotions.    Irish culture is so vibrant and Maeve brings the reader right into the midst of it in such a beautiful way.   Her words are like pixies here, there and back again but always magical and fun, even in her melancholy characters there is still some sunshine to their lives, just not always enough to suit them.    To give you an idea of the fun in all of her stories she once said, “In Irish etiquette it is said that when you hold a dinner party you should always invite four talkers and four listeners but no one in Ireland knows four listeners!”   Lovely lady.    The written word is sadder for her passing (2012), but lucky for the works she left us with.   Wonderful author.  Great stories to be found here.   A treasure.