The Copper Beech, (Paperback)

from msbaba

The Copper Beech, by Maeve Binchy, is a loving portrait of a rural Irish village told through the lives of its ordinary town folk over a twenty-five year period from the mid-1940s to 1970. There are eight main characters and almost a whole village worth of other secondary characters. If there is ...

from mirrani

This is the story of small town anywhere. Everyone knows everyone else and everyone keeps tabs on what is going on, which is why I really loved the way this book is written, because each little story about one character overlaps in the way it should for people in a small town. This was a quick bo...

from NaggedMan

Whoever wrote that this was "60 pages, you can read it all in an easy sitting", must have been reading the first section ("Shancarrig School"), not the whole novel, which includes a further eight sections, looking at life from the perspectives of eight young people who left the school in the same...

from Schmerguls

My daughter Laurie has previously mentioned this favorite author and when she died July 30, 2012, Laurie told this book was her favorite Binchy novel so I read it. It tells of kids who go to a village school, and how they proceed to emerge from ht trials aof their youth. Some do wll, others less ...

from moonshineandrosefire

In the close-knit Irish community of Shancarrig, there stands an old copper beech overlooking the schoolhouse. For years, the imposing tree has been both a silent spectator and a staunch supporter of the generations of students who have gone to school in Shancarrig. Eight children once carved the...