Sometimes simplicity is a most suggestive argument. The curious nature of the human being leads us to this desire to also know about others, their customs and experiences, beyond the masked ball of everyday life, jobs, occupations and social life.
Because in the interior of each house that magic of transformation towards who we really are appears. And sometimes the change is not substantial, but in other cases it is about discovering the Mir Hyde of that person presented to the outside as a pure facade of what he would really want to be.
And he dealt with that with simple mastery Maeve binchy, in a sort of genre narrative towards the most individual of its characters, a intimacy strict. Because one thing is the adopted customs and another thing is the true customs that guide our most authentic behavior from the inside.
But addressing the intimate versus the social can be used for criticism, the irony of the contradiction between morals and individual principles, the starkest presentation of prejudices in small settings. A whole universe of the human that ended up sowing a great queue of followers of this brilliant Irish writer.
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Maeve Binchy
Under the dublin sky
Nothing is more certain that the children come to fill a gap, in the first place as a vital loan assignment, until life takes its course and that existential appendage must direct its own destiny.
And nothing better to represent that transforming scenario of the human made father or mother than to present a guy like Noel, evicted from life, full of the past and with no future projection.
Because Noel receives the news of an imminent paternity with the greatest weight of the next death of the future mother, affected by cancer in her last stages of pregnancy. Before leaving the world, the mother decides to call the unborn Frankie, as the only option she has left to leave something about that person who will enter the scene from her womb at the same time she leaves him.
Frankie, Noel and new life from the curious extreme of death. An emotional story that, however, is conducted without easy sentimentality and that soaks up everything in that cycle of our existence inherited in our DNA.
Friend circle
The distance usually reaches every childhood friendship. To a greater or lesser extent. But there always survives a remote impression of eternal friendship, of debt for the paradise of shared childhood.
That is the case of Benny and Eve, inseparable friends in their small town, with that intensity typical of friendships in small places and that harmony of those who share everything from their day to day. The passage of both to the first maturity leads them to Dublin to carry out their studies.
And that's where we find the friendship exposed to its different risks on the multiple sources that attract Benny and Eve in different ways. Interaction with new characters involves conflict situations for friends that seem to threaten that unbreakable friendship.
And so we enjoy fundamental aspects about ourselves in this fascinating time of discoveries, failures, frustrations and necessary reconciliations.
One week in winter
This novel aroused my curiosity from the old doubt of what happens with those summer places that one leaves to return to the big city or to that other less idle space in which to resume the life routine.
We can imagine how restaurants and many other businesses close during the winter phase in so many summer destinations. But this novel delves into real life, the details and the lives of those who are waiting for the following summer.
Stone House is a fascinating and enigmatic house facing the immense Atlantic Ocean that tries to keep tourism alive in the off-season. From the windows of the house you can see the icy world with the comfort of finding refuge.
And there are also travelers or tourists who like that feeling to plan leisure trips. Only these travelers always seem to seek a destination in the loneliest place in the world to hide from something.
This is the case of Winnie, Henry and Nicola, John, Froda and Nora, vacationers out of time and place who will show us that dark motivation to escape to the furthest place from the madding crowd.
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