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  • Light a Penny Candle

  • Written by: Maeve Binchy
  • Narrated by: Kate Binchy
  • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Light a Penny Candle

Written by: Maeve Binchy
Narrated by: Kate Binchy
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Publisher's Summary

Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous O'Connors in Kilgarret, Ireland. It is the beginning of an unshakeable bond between Elizabeth and Aisling O'Connor, a friendship which will endure through 20 turbulent years of change and chaos, joy and sorrow, soaring dreams, and searing betrayals.

Writing with warmth, wit, and great compassion, Maeve Binchy tells a magnificent story of the lives and loves of two women, bound together in a friendship that nothing can tear asunder - not even the man who threatens to come between them forever.
© Maeve Binchy; (P) Random House
Fiction Genre Fiction Women's Fiction
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What the critics say

"A find...so rich and engrossing you can forget your own problems." ( Glamour)
"Reader Kate Binchy, the author's cousin, nimbly carries the listener from England to Ireland and back again. She casts a warm spell as she makes each character come alive, from Elizabeth's staid father, to her roguish lover, to the Polish merchant who teaches her about valuing herself. Like the title's "penny candle," Binchy's personalities glow lingeringly in the listener's mind." ( AudioFile)

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Abridged version

I did not know that this was the abridged version. I started to read the paperback then thought I’d finish it on audible but it’s terrible just skipped over the basic story. I will have to go back to the paperback. In future I will have to make sure that it’s the full book

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