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Maeve Binchy: The Biography (2014)

by Piers Dudgeon(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1250047145 (ISBN13: 9781250047144)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Thomas Dunne Books

review 1: As a history major, I enjoy reading biographies, but I acknowledge they can be dry and not for everyone. So it was with real pleasure that I read this book. I have immensely enjoyed Maeve Binchy's storytelling, and in particular her thorough characterizations, and have read all of her novels. So when this book began comparing her life to things that happened in the various books, it made perfect sense.The biography has so much about Maeve and her characters and incidents in her life and how she used her experiences to create a fictional story, it felt almost as if I were reading one last book by Maeve Binchy.If you loved her books, go ahead and read her biography. It's not heavy going at all, and you'll be glad you did!
review 2: It's evident the author nev... moreer met Maeve, and had access to few people in her life. In an attempt to correlate her life with her fiction, he makes clumsy comparisons between her life and plots in her novels, breaking into the narrative of her life with large chunks of novel summaries which distance the reader from Maeve herself. Large parts of the biography read instead like an exam essay. A lively subject, such a shame it turned into a laboured, dull, text. less

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