Memories of Maeve
You've read the extracts – now Mary Kenny reviews the biography of her friend Maeve Binchy
Mary Kenny
It was famously laid down by Ernest Hemingway that the first condition for a writer is to have an unhappy childhood. I assumed that Maeve Binchy was the exception to the Hemingway principle, as she always spoke about the idyllic nature of her childhood.
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