Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy

Author:Maeve Binchy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Europe, Romance, Contemporary Women, Irish Americans, Cultural Heritage, Hotelkeepers, Family Life, General, Literary, Americans, Ireland, Country Life, Americans - Ireland, Fiction, Domestic Fiction, Irish-Americans, History
ISBN: 9780786297757
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1987-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

There was the story of John and the man trying to sell him an insurance policy: John had refused it and the man had turned ugly. He had said that John must be expecting to come into a big windfall from the Fernscourt insurance people. John had been icy in his dismissal, but the man had retorted that he was only saying what half of Mountfern was saying behind his back. Kate had been upset but John had shrugged and said that a village had to have something to talk about, and since they hadn't had a two-headed calf born recently, nor a cure at the May bush, nor even a visit from a politician, they had to fill in the long winter evenings somehow.

Kate read about art galleries that Rachel had visited, and a course of ten lectures that she had been attending. She heard of trips taken by train to cities in the United States which were further apart than the whole width of Ireland.

She knew that Rachel had seen a lot of movies and heard too little from Patrick, and that she was now considered a world authority on Ireland by the people in her circle.

Without Rachel having to write it, Kate knew there were a lot of empty nights.

Without Kate having to put it down on paper, Rachel knew that Kate sometimes found the imprisonment in her chair almost more than she could bear. The frustration seeped across the Atlantic in spite of herself. The days when it seemed to rain and rain and her lovely side garden with all the plants that she was meant to admire from her green room had turned into a mire of mud.

There were the times when it was obvious that Kate Ryan might in fact explode if she hadn't this safety valve, this marvellous friend she could write to and explain everything as it was.

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