It was a summer of warmth.... Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern... lovely twelve-year-old twins... and such wonderful dreams.... It was a summer of innocence... but all that is about to change this fateful summer of 1962 when American millionaire Patrick O'Neill comes to town with his irresistible charm and a pocketful of money... when love and hate vie for a town's quiet heart and old traditions begin to crumble away.... It was a summer of love that would never come ...
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It was a summer of warmth.... Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern... lovely twelve-year-old twins... and such wonderful dreams.... It was a summer of innocence... but all that is about to change this fateful summer of 1962 when American millionaire Patrick O'Neill comes to town with his irresistible charm and a pocketful of money... when love and hate vie for a town's quiet heart and old traditions begin to crumble away.... It was a summer of love that would never come again.... A time that has been captured forever in Maeve Binchy's compelling family drama... a novel you will never forget. From the Hardcover edition.
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Binchy's book about a quiet Irish town is so dense that it is hard to know where to begin talking about it. "Clocking in" at nearly 700 pages in the paperback edition, "Firefly Summer" leaves no character unexplored or plot device untested, and luckily this exhaustive attention to detail adds to the narrative rather than dragging it down.
The plot centers around Kate and John Ryan, owners of a small pub in Mountfern, Ireland. Their lives revolve around their four children as well as keeping their small business afloat, but when a rich Irish-American businessman buys up the ruins across the bridge with plans to open a new hotel, the Ryans know that of all the residents of Mountfern, they will be hit the hardest.
"Firefly Summer" takes a wide view of this small town and all its parts, painting its geography and inhabitants so thoroughly that by the end I felt I had been there.
While at times the length of the novel felt overwhelming, I enjoyed following the Ryan family through several years and all their attendant joys and sorrows.
