Coronet Books Series

Growing up in a small seaside town in the 1950s, Clare O'Brien and David Power shout their hearts' desires into the echo cave, praying that their destiny will lead them far away from the town in which they live. Years later they meet again in Dublin, where David is studying medicine and Clare has won a scholarship to University College. But eventually Castlebay will draw them back and it is against a backdrop of empty grey skies, sea-spray and wind that this drama of ambition, betrayal and love finally reaches its turbulent conclusion-

Light A Penny Candle

by Maeve Binchy

Published 16 September 1982

'Maeve Binchy! I love her stories and have since Light a Penny Candle.' Tom Hanks
'Wonderfully warm and involving' Katie Fforde
'Binchy's novels are never less than entertaining' Sunday Times
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A friendship nothing could destroy.

Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, the shy Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the O'Connor family in Kilgarret, Ireland, where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with the lively, boisterous Aisling O'Connor.

Neither of them were to know it would become the most important friendship of their lives. Their bond is unshakeable, enduring over turbulent years of change and chaos, joy and sorrow, soaring dreams - and searing betrayals . . .

With warmth, wit and great compassion, Maeve Binchy tells a magnificent story of two women, bound together in a friendship that nothing could tear apart - not even the man who threatened to come between them forever.
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'Binchy's novels are never less than entertaining' Sunday Times
'What better books to raise the spirits than the gentle, insightful Irish tales of Maeve Binchy?' HELLO! Magazine
'If any author can help you survive lockdown, it's Binchy' Daily Mail
'I find myself yearning for the rain-soaked watercolour writing of Maeve Binchy' Guardian Best Comfort Reads

Circle of Friends

by Maeve Binchy

Published 10 July 1990

Set mainly against the background of a small community, this novel is the story of three girls whose lives, over a period of ten years, become entwined in a bizarre triangle. The author's previous books include Light a Penny Candle, Echoes and Silver Wedding.

Firefly Summer

by Maeve Binchy

Published 1 August 1988

It was a summer of warmth.... Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern... lovely twelve-year-old twins... and such wonderful dreams.... It was a summer of innocence... but all that is about to change this fateful summer of 1962 when American millionaire Patrick O'Neill comes to town with his irresistible charm and a pocketful of money... when love and hate vie for a town's quiet heart and old traditions begin to crumble away.... It was a summer of love that would never come again.... A time that has been captured forever in Maeve Binchy's compelling family drama... a novel you will never forget.

"From the Paperback edition."

Victoria Line

by Maeve Binchy

Published 23 October 1980

Central Line

by Maeve Binchy

Published 26 June 1978