An old copper beech overlooks a school, and witnesses all the hopes and loves, dreams and ambitions of the children who grew up there.
By the school house at Shancarrig stands a copper beech, its bark scarred with the names and dreams of the pupils who have grown up under its branches. Under Junior Assistant Mistress Maddy Ross's careful gaze the children play, but out of school Maddy's gaze lingers where it shouldn't. Maura Brennan, a bundle of fun from the rough end of town, plays with her pals: leap year baby Eddie Barton, the apple of his mother's eye, and Nessa Ryan, who little realises as she carves his name at the roots of the copper beech on the very last day of school that she'll get a lot more from one of her schoolmates than her first shy kiss. The copper beech is the gateway to Maeve Binchy's marvellous portrait of a small Irish town whose untroubled surface conceals the passions, rivalries, friendships, ambitions and jealousies beneath.

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Sending to chinasourcer for her OBCZ....good luck! :o)

Received in the post yesterday, many thanks.

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This was picked up by a passer-by at the Norfolk BC meetup.

I picked the book up while having morning coffee with my mother in John Lewis in Norwich.

CAUGHT IN NORWICH NORFOLK ENGLAND