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Evening Class (CD) | 
 enlarge | Author: Maeve Binchy
Creator: Kate Binchy
Publisher: Orion
Category: Book
List Price: £16.99
Buy New: £12.25
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 263561
Format: Audiobook, Cd
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0752869183
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780752869186
ASIN: 0752869183
Publication Date: February 3, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Hairline crack in case.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It's the perfect gift: Laughter, the best medicine! From beloved author Maeve Binchy, who has captured the hearts of millions with her spectacular national bestsellers, including Circle of Friends and Tara Road. In Evening Class, she applies her signature warmth, wit and understanding to something new--a wickedly funny book for anyone who's checked into the hospital, headed for an operation or convalesced at home. Maeve Binchy can always be counted on to spin an involving tale about ordinary people that brings out the extraordinary in everyone. Here, she zooms in on the working-class of Dublin. Schoolteacher Aidan Dunne organises an evening class in Italian with the help of Nora O'Donoghue, an Irishwoman returning home after 26 years in Sicily. When the somewhat squashed-by-life denizens of the surrounding neighbourhood take the unexpected step of enrolling in the class, they find their lives transformed. Binchy tells her story from the viewpoints of eight different characters and rewards both them and her readers with happy endings after the requisite rocky road. Reading a novel by Maeve Binchy is like catching up with old friends--you know everything will turn out fine in the end, but you're still interested in how things get that way.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Magic August 23, 2008
Beacrm (Cleveland, England)
I loved this book. Read it in the week between Christmas and New Year when the weather was cold and miserable. Pure escapism. A joy to read.
 Keep it for those rainy days.... August 4, 2008
Cristina (Verona, Italy)
The story of a group of Dubliners from different ages and walks of life, whose lives are literally turned upside down by an enthusiastic and eccentric "signora" who teaches them Italian language and culture. Binchy not at her best, but still an enjoyable enough read. Don't rely too much on her Italian grammar though...there are a few little mistakes here and there, but that's just a comment from a pedantic Italian reader!
When you want something to read that doesn`t require much concentration April 6, 2008
Leeds lass (England)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
you can read this. I wouldn`t recommend it as a great read but it passes the time on shall we say....?
Very light February 11, 2008
love reading (Scotland)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I usually enjoy Maeve Binchy even although her stories have no depth. You certainly don't learn anything but they are entertaining like a good soap opera. Evening class is no different although probably with even less depth than usual.
Simple and pleasant, but nothing more August 9, 2000
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I found Evening Class to be a simple, easy to read story. But it didn't go any deeper than that. This is a very pleasant book to entertain you or pass the time while you are lying on the beach or on the train to work, and don't want anything too taxing. On the other hand, that makes it highly forgettable. There is just nothing clever enough or deep enough to cause real contemplation, and as a result there is no lasting impression. The happily ever after ending was also far too expected and too obvious.Basically, I enjoyed it while I was reading it, but when I thought about it afterwards, there was nothing special about it at all.
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