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Echoes

Advantages: Classic Maeve Binchy
Disadvantages: Wasn't impressed with the ending, it was a little too unresolved for my liking

Like the majority of Maeve Binchy's books, this is set in a small town in Ireland. 'Echoes' tells the story of Clare O'Brien, the daughter of a shopkeeper who have to rely on the tourists of this seaside town to keep afloat. Clare is bright, and dreams of a life beyond her rpesent circimstances. David is the son of a doctor and a class consceience mother, he goes to boarding school rather than the local school in the village. Angela O'Hara, a teacher at the school, who is the daughter of a drunk who was able to get an education against the odds, and who risks everything to help Clare escape and achieve the the same. And Gerry Doyle, a photographers son, town charmer who vows to have Clare at any price.... As always, Binchy makes each of the characters come alive with this amazing but slightly depressing plot. Each characters personal ...

twiggy001 11.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Echoes - Maeve Binchy

Echoes of greatness

Advantages: Some super tracks, nice variety of music, great vocals throughout
Disadvantages: A couple of average songs

Leona Lewis' second album has been 2 years in the making, and I've very much been looking forward to the release of this. She came back onto the scene a couple of months ago with the debut single from her new album, Happy, and has been performing it on pretty much all the TV shows she can get onto. Finally, I managed to download it on its release for a bargain price on Tesco Entertainment, and sat there listening to it for the next few hours trying to determine how much I liked it. I put a copy in my car so that I could listen to it when I was driving round, and now after a good few weeks of listening, I'm ready to review and give what I hope is a rounded and full opinion of Leona Lewis' fantastic second album, Echo. The album begins with Leona's first single from it, Happy. This is a song that people are calling a poor man's "Bleeding ...

mummy2harry 24.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Echo - Leona Lewis

Echoes

Advantages: good read
Disadvantages: none

Echoes is another good read by Maeve Binchey. This is about two children and how different they were and had different outlook and desires on life nothing very common with each other but at this stage of the book we did not know that they would meet up again. They would go to the cave which was called Echo Cave and asking and prayering to get away from Castlebay which was the town that they grew up in,It was always very bleak at winter always looking so grey with the wind and the sea, it was so much better in the summer months when visitors used to come to the beach -typical sea side town. Clare was one of those children with great ambitions to leave Castlebay,she was Tom O'brien's younger daughter. Winning a scholarship to go to the University College in Dublin. She was very popular with the local teacher.So with the opprtunity to go ...

ruth1957 07.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Echoes - Maeve Binchy