'Firefly Summer is warm, humorous, sad and happy. 'If any author can help you survive lockdown, it's Binchy' DAILY MAIL Oh dear, this has made me very lazy, I hardly read at all now.'Wonderfully warm and involving' KATIE FFORDE I listen to the book walking the dogs, my knees went weak. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? I am only downloading Meave Binchy books read by Kate at the moment - although I listened to a Week in Winter and enjoyed Caroline Lennon too! I have listened to a few books via Audible now, and I think there is something special there wih Kate's reading. Kate reads well, she gives voices to the characters that you recognise. What does Kate Binchy bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book? The Casual Vacancy - good story with the gritty bits of death, serious injury and human frailty What other book might you compare Firefly Summer to, and why?
What made the experience of listening to Firefly Summer the most enjoyable? If you have not encountered her before you have a real treat ahead of you, if like me you have read the books then I would suggest that you will also find that the narration breathes a triumphant new life through the story for you.Ī lovely story, yet with all the gritty bits The loves and losses, triumphs and disasters that follow and the creation of characters about whom you really care are the hall marks of this wonderful novelist whose books were once described as sitting down for a good gossip with a friend. The humanity and gentle humour of the writing is brought into sharp focus by Kate and from the moment that you step through the door into the world of Mountfern you will be drawn into the lives of all the characters coping with potential disruption to their way of life by the purchase of the ruined 'great' house by and American business man trying to get back to what he fondly imagines are his roots. Is there anyone left who has not fallen under the spell of the inimitable Maeve Binchy? I have, of course, already read everything she wrote but the added dimension brought to the stories by the narration of Kate Binchy raises them to perfection.
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