Circle of Friends

Based on two friends, Benny and Eve, from a sleepy village in Ireland, the book centres on friendship and growing up. Binchey deals with love, tradegy, the struggle to fit in, and the strength of true loyalty between friends.

The characters are wonderful, people you love, like, dislike and hate. People you relate to and people you can easily imagine. Maeve Binchey has a talent of making you feel part of the story, making the characters seem like people you know and the heartaches feel like they are yours.

I laughed out loud at this book, as i do at most Binchey novels, she is a truly humerous Irish author. I also shed a few tears! The Irish backdrop, the accents and the life in a Catholic village with nuns for teachers, is ever popular in Bincheys stories and a formula that works again and again.

Read this book. . . . and appreciate the people close to you. Too often we take the people we love for granted. . . .let Circle of Friends show you real strength among true friends!


Truly wonderful!   August 18, 2000
 10 out of 13 found this review helpful

This book is the grandest book I have ever read. It pulls you into to it, makes you feel as if you are part of the story, as if one of the characters. You can't put it down, and when you do, you find your mind wandering back. If you beleive in true friendships, and that comes with sad parts as well, then read this book, it will make you value and friendship you have, even more. A GOOD BOOK!


good- relatively speaking   July 23, 2000
 5 out of 11 found this review helpful

This book is one of two I received for my birthday. I read this one first simply because I know this is a best-selling author and so I assumed this book MUST be good. And it was - no question. I enjoyed it immensely, I loved the characters and and it really engrossed me. Five stars! And then I read the other book, which was "Of marriageable Age" by Sharon Maas who as far as I can tell is an unknown, it ssems this is her first, and I was transported into heaven - Maeve's book is certainly good but Maas's is EXCELLENT, unputdownable, heart-wrenching! SO I give this one only three stars. It just goes to show how relative everything is.