CIrcle of friends

Why we chose this book

This book is comfort food for the soul. Maeve Binchy's style is so simple and reassuring that you often forget you're reading a book and imagine yourself instead catching up with old friends over a cup of coffee in a cafe in Dublin. How wonderful!   ~Beth

From the Publisher
It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains...except their own.

It widened at Dublin, at the university where Benny and Eve met beautiful Nan Mahlon and Jack Foley, a doctor's handsome son. But heartbreak and betrayal would bring the worlds of Knockglen and Dublin into explosive collision. Long-hidden lies would emerge to test the meaning of love and the strength of ties held within the fragile gold bands of a... Circle Of Friends.

Publishers Weekly Review

Loyal friends Benny and Eve, young women who grew up together in an Irish village, find their relationship tested by the new friendships, romances and opportunities that develop at a Dublin university. Binchy's characters have a colorful way with words, and if the prose is sometimes careless, this is still Irish storytelling at its contemporary best.

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