Maeve Binchy was 72. He was the novelist best known for her novels Circle of Friends and Light a Penny Candle.
My Irish grandmother ate Maeve Binchy books for breakfast. Every time I'd visit we'd end up at the Bradford library where she'd pick up a Binchy book or two or three. It didn't matter if she had already read the book a dozen times, she loved the Irishness of Binchy's novels.
