Maeve Binchy
October 28, 2008 1:05 pm AuthorsMaeve Binchy was born in Dublin she first found fame first as London Correspondent for the Irish Times. Her first book, Light A Penny Candle (1982) was popular both in the UK and USA. She lives in Dublin with her husband, Gordon Snell.
A lot of her novels are set in Ireland and deal with the tensions between rural and urban life, and the contrasts between England and Ireland, showing the big changes in Ireland between World War II and today.
She says of her upbringing. ‘My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else. My mother could do all kinds of things, like take a bone out of your throat if it got stuck and you were choking, or clean out a turkey on Christmas Eve when it arrived far from oven-ready. She could take out splinters and cure headaches and get the grocer to deliver her a packet of Gold Flake by giving a list of other items as well and asking if it could be brought up to the house soon because she was in a hurry for the cornflour. Our house was ten miles from Dublin City where we all went to University and then to work. Ten miles is near enough to live at home, and just a little too near to get a flat unless there was some bad feeling. And there was no bad feeling.’
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