The Glass Lake

Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly.

Until one day, beautiful, mysterious Helen McMahon disappears, presumed drowned in the lake, and then the gossip runs wild. The consequences for Helen's husband, her son, but above all for her daughter, Kit, are unimaginable and will leave not one of their lives unchanged.

“'The book rattles along from one gripping story to another, leaving the reader with a satisfying glow... It does exactly what it says on the tin: gives heart and soul'-- DAILY MAIL”

'The book rattles along from one gripping story to another, leaving the reader with a satisfying glow... It does exactly what it says on the tin: gives heart and soul' - DAILY MAIL

'Oh, the bliss...Maeve's back...The heart is the theme, literally and metaphorically, and this is heartwarming stuff' - THE TIMES

'Make no mistake, there is magic at work' - SUNDAY TIMES

'HEART AND SOUL is another instant classic, infused with Maeve's trademark warmth, charm and compassion...she is the Queen of Fiction and one of the funniest and best-loved storytellers in the world...once you read Maeve you are hooked for life' - IRISH TIMES

Maeve Binchy was born in County Dublin and was educated at the Holy Child Convent in Killiney and at University College Dublin. After a spell as a teacher in various girls' schools, she joined the Irish Times. Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, was published in 1982, and since then she has written more than a dozen novels and short-story collections, each one of them bestsellers. Several have been adapted for cinema and television, most notably Circle of Friends and Tara Road. Maeve Binchy was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award at the British Book Awards in 1999 and the Irish PEN/A.T. Cross award in 2007. In 2010 she was also presented with a Lifetime Achievement award by the Romantic Novelists' Association and in November 2010 she was presented with the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bord Gais Irish Book Awards by the President of Ireland, Mrs Mary McAleese. She is survived by her husband, author and broadcaster Gordon Snell.

Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly.Until one day, beautiful, mysterious Helen McMahon disappears, presumed drowned in the lake, and then the gossip runs wild. The consequences for Helen's husband, her son, but above all for her daughter, Kit, are unimaginable and will leave not one of their lives unchanged.

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