The Glass Lake: A Novel

The Glass Lake: A Novel
Maeve Binchy (Author)
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An incandescent novel of love, obsession, and the secrets that take root in the human heart, by the author of The Copper Beech and Circle Of Friends. Lough Glass is at the heart and soul of the namesake town clinging to its shore. They say that if you go out on St. Agnes' Eve and look into the lake at sunset you can see your future. But beneath its serene surface, the lake harbors secrets as dark and unfathomable as the beautiful woman who night after night walks beside its waters. Lough Glass is home to Kit McMahon, in a way it will never be to her lovely mother, Helen, who does not fit in with the ways of the people of Lough Glass, and who found an unlikely mate in the genial pharmacist Martin McMahon. Kit adores her mother, but can't escape the picture of her, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming down her face... or walking alone by the glass lake. Then one terrible night Martin's boat is found drifting upside down in the lake. The night Helen is lost. The night Kit discovers a letter on Martin's pillow and burns it, unopened, in the grate. The night everything changes forever.


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• Rank: #5211 in eBooks
• Published on: 2007-09-04
• Released on: 2007-09-04
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

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Maeve Binchy was born and educated in Dublin. She is the bestselling author ofbThe Return Journey, Evening Class, This Year It Will Be Different,/bandbThe Glass Lakes/b. She has written two plays and a teleplay that won three awards at the Prague Film Festival. She has been writing for The Irish Times since 1969 and lives with her husband, writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell, in Dublin.brbrbriFrom the Trade Paperback edition./iKit always thought that the Pope had beeniat/iher mother and father's wedding. There was this picture of him in their housea different pope, a dead oneand the writing underneath said that Martin McMahon and Mary Helena Healy had prostrated themselves at his feet. It had never occurred to her to look for him in the wedding picture. Anyway, it was such an awful photograph. All those people in embarrassing coats and hats standing in a line. If she'd thought about it at all Kit might have assumed that the Pope had left before the picture was taken, got on the mail boat in Dun Laoghaire and gone back to Rome.brbrThat's why it was such a shock when Mother Bernard explained that the Pope could never ever leave the Holy See; not even a war would make him leave the Vatican.brbr"But he went to weddings, didn't he?" Kit said.brbr"Only if they were in Rome." Mother Bernard knew it all.brbr"He was at my parents' wedding," Kit insisted.brbrMother Bernard looked at the little McMahon girl, a mop of black curly hair and bright blue eyes. A great wall-climber, an organizer of much of the devilment that went on in the schoolyard, but not until now a fantasist.brbr"I don't think so, Katherine," the nun said, hoping to stop it there.brbr"But heiwas./i" Kit was stung. "They have a framed picture of him on the wall saying that he was there."brbr"That's the papal blessing, you eejit," said Clio. "Everyone has them . . . t

Description #3 by eBay - grandeagleretail:

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the serene waters of Lough Glass. Until the day she disappeared, leaving only a boat drifting upside down on the unfathomable lake that gave the town its name. Ravishing Helen McMahon, the Dubliner with film-star looks and unfulfilled dreams, never belonged in Lough Glass, not the way her genial p