BLOGWORDS – Friday 18 April 2025– FIRST LINE FRIDAY – THE GLASS LAKE by MAEVE BINCHY

BLOGWORDS – Friday 18 April 2025– FIRST LINE FRIDAY – THE GLASS LAKE by MAEVE BINCHY

FIRST LINE FRIDAY – THE GLASS LAKE by MAEVE BINCHY

 

THE BOOK

 

 

NOTE:

I’m bringing First Line Friday back to my blog with a book that is dear to me, The Glass Lake. I’ve always been a reader, devouring stories from a young age. I’m not sure when, but depression set in, making reading a near impossible task.

I faced that depression head on in 1996, and one day at the store, on a lark, I snagged a copy of The Glass Lake from the rack next to the register; I read it in seven days. 770 pages worth!! In SEVEN days!

Can’t say I remember the story after thirty years but it left an impression on me. Placing the author, Maeve Binchy, forever in my heart and at the top of my circle of favorite authors.

 

THE BLURB

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 belonged, nor their spirited daughter Kit. Suddenly she is gone and Kit is haunted by the memory of her mother, seen through a window, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming down her face. Now Kit, too, has secrets: of the night she discovered a letter on Martin’s pillow and burned it, unopened. The night her mother was lost. The night everything changed forever . . . 

 

THE FIRST LINE

Kit always thought that the Pope had been at her mother and father’s wedding.

 

 

THE AUTHOR

Maeve Binchy was born in County Dublin and educated at the Holy Child convent in Killiney and at University College, Dublin. After a spell as a teacher she joined the IRISH TIMES. Her first novel, LIGHT A PENNY CANDLE, was published in 1982 and she went on to write over twenty books, all of them bestsellers. Several have been adapted for cinema and television, including TARA ROAD. Maeve Binchy received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Book Awards in 1999 and the Irish PEN/A.T. Cross award in 2007. In 2010 she was presented with the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards by the President of Ireland. She was married to the writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell for 35 years, and died in 2012.

 

 

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