And Signora, whose passionate past remained a secret as she changed all their lives forever.įrom 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.
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. It was Latin teacher Aidan Dunnes last chance to revive a failing marriage and a dead-end career. Binchy (The Copper Beech, 1992, etc.) once again nets a flock of middle- and lower-middle worriers, loners, and groaners, all brooding on their peculiar miseries, until an updraft of love or happy coincidences sets them free. 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. Thats where the real passion was lurking. It was Latin teacher Aidan Dunne's last chance to revive a failing marriage and a dead-end career. Summary It was the quiet ones you had to watch. But, as Aidan states it, the goalposts are always moving. Each character has a dream of how life can be better. Characters to whom we are introduced in this book weave in and out of her next half dozen or so, some only in passing, others with more depth. Preview of Evening Class Summary: Binchy assembles a cast of characters who have been dealt bad hands, made bad discards, foolishly upped antes, and bluffed or have otherwise lost in life's poker game. whose stories are almost all set in Ireland. This is the one that got me hooked on the author.
That's where the real passion was lurking. Maeve Binchys novels are about ordinary people and their relationships people the reader can always identify with. I had read a couple of Maeve Binchy books prior to Evening Class and thought they were only so-so.
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