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Book Summary InformationAuthor: Maeve Binchy Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2007-05-29 ISBN: 0385341806 Number of pages: 544 Publisher: Dell
Book Reviews of Evening ClassBook Review: A heart warming read, Summary: 4 Stars
This story is told in much the same way as 'The Lilac Bus' and 'A Silver Wedding'
Binchy manages to join a number of short stories and the people in them brilliantly. The story tells how an Italian evening class changes their lives.
We have the crazy Signora, possibly the main character of this book. She follows her love, Mario, to Italy, and spends the best part of her live watching him through a window. Aidan Dunne, comes across as so boring his family wont even speak to him, but theres more to his family than meets the eye. Barry who's mother is suicidal due to his fathers betrayal. Lou who manages to buy his girlfriend all the gifts she can imagine even though he has a low paid job. Connie who is rich and mysterious. Fran and Cathy, two sisters, or are they? and Bill and Lizzy who are engaged, can you get 2 more opposite people? A group of completly different people with different backgrouds who are brought together by an Italian Evening classe.
Really enjoyed this book.
Summary of Evening ClassIt was the quiet ones you had to watch. That's where the real passion was lurking.
They came together at Mountainview College, a down-at-the-heels secondary school on the seamy side of Dublin, to take a course in Italian. It was Latin teacher Aidan Dunne's last chance to revive a failing marriage and a dead-end career. But Aidan's dream was headed for disaster until the mysterious Signora appeared, transforming a shared passion for Italy into a life-altering adventure for them all...bank clerk Bill and his dizzy fiance Lizzie: a couple headed for trouble...Kathy, a hardworking innocent propelled into adulthood in a shocking moment of truth...Connie, the gorgeous rich lady with a scandal ready to explode...glowering Lou, who joined the class as a cover for crime. And Signora, whose passionate past remained a secret as she changed all their lives forever....
From the New York Times bestselling author of This Year It Will Be Different, The Glass Lake, and Circle of Friends, comes a novel filled with Maeve Binchy's signature warmth, wit, and sheer storytelling genius--a spellbinding tale of men and women whose quiet lives hide the most unexpected things....
From the Paperback edition. Maeve Binchy can always be counted on to spin an involving tale about ordinary people that brings out the extraordinary in everyone. In Evening Class, Binchy zooms in on the working-class of Dublin. Schoolteacher Aidan Dunne organizes an evening class in Italian with the help of Nora O'Donoghue, an Irishwoman returning home after 26 years in Sicily. When the somewhat squashed-by-life denizens of the surrounding neighborhood take the unexpected step of enrolling in the class, they find their lives transformed. Binchy tells her story from the viewpoints of eight different characters and rewards both them and her readers with happy endings after the requisite rocky road. Reading a novel by Maeve Binchy is like catching up with old friends--you know everything will turn out fine in the end, but you're still interested in how things get that way.
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