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|title=Evening Class

|author=Maeve Binchy

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|pages=528

|publisher=Orion

|date=June 2005

|isbn=0752876821

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This is one of my favourite novels by Maeve Binchy. As with much of her work, the setting is Ireland. The main focus of the story is an Italian evening class, set up by a rather disillusioned school teacher, employing an Irish lady who has lived in Sicily for many years. Thirty students gather and become deeply involved in each other's lives.

Highly recommended to anyone who likes character-based novels with more depth than many average modern books.

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|name=Jacquie Longden

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I thoroughly enjoyed it when I first read it, and am spurred on now to pluck it from the depths of the bookshelf and re-read it!

Jacquie

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I was struck by your comment about how you had forgotten all the twists and turns in Evening Class when you came to read it again. I had a similar experience with Tara Road, which I was planning to give away/sell on eBay as it was a hardback in VGC. However, my puppy got hold of it and chewed the corners, so thought I would read it again before chucking it. I just cannot remember what happens to the main character Ria Lynch, and yet it's not a sign of bad writing. I remember Ria well, just not what happened to her. Binchy somehow casts a storytelling spell on the reader, so you page-turn once, then again, and again.

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