Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy
Maeve Binchy . Unknown Year . English
FIREFLY SUMMER is the story of four fateful years in the life of a small, sleepy Irish town, and in particular of the family who run the local pub, Interlocking stories of loves lost and won, hopes raised and dashed, ambitions nurtured and secrets betrayed, FIREFLY SUMMER is one of the richest and most dramatic novels Maeve Binchy has written.
Categories: Graphic Novels & Comics (Fiction)
About the Author
Maeve Binchy was born in County Dublin and educated at the Holy Child convent in Killiney and at University College, Dublin. After a spell as a teacher she joined the IRISH TIMES. Her first novel, LIGHT A PENNY CANDLE, was published in 1982 and she went on to write over twenty books, all of them bestsellers. Several have been adapted for cinema and television, including TARA ROAD. Maeve Binchy received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Book Awards in 1999 and the Irish PEN/A.T. Cross award in 2007. In 2010 she was presented with the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards by the President of Ireland. She was married to the writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell for 35 years, and died in 2012.
