![]() Kate (Binchy's most splendid character) and her husband own a pub that is bound to suffer when the hotel opens. ![]() But tragedy strikes when a bulldozer working on the hotel site crushes Kate Ryan's spine her adaptation to life in a wheelchair is brave and touching. The consequences of Patrick's arrival there early in the '60s are often hilarious: the local aristocracyespecially the widows and spinstersvies for his attentions, while the villagers are beguiled by his largesse and by thoughts of the prosperity the hotel will bring. ![]() Mountfern is the ancestral home of Patrick O`Neill, a rough, rich American whose wealth comes from bars and restaurants, and whose dream is to build a grand hotel in Mountfern. Binchy's latest novel (after Light a Penny Candle ) is set in the tiny Irish backwater of Mountfern, home to a handful of families and typical of hundreds of similar hamlets in the British Isles where life is lived to the rhythm of the seasons. ![]()
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