{"product_id":"maeve-binchy-the-biography-9781900064583","title":"Maeve Binchy: The Biography","description":"Maeve Binchy's heart-warming tales of love, life and loss made her one of the world's best-loved storytellers. Her novels, which sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, captured imaginations on both sides of the Atlantic in a way that most authors only dream of. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this extraordinary biography, illustrated with 44 photographs, Piers Dudgeon reveals that the inspiration for many of her stories came from Maeve's own hard-won experience growing up in Ireland. In the land of her birth and setting of her novels, she endured a difficult adolescence and famously lost her faith before coming to terms with who she was and expressing at last the qualities that would come to define her both as a writer and a person. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A remarkable insight into the private life of the much-loved author.' \u003ci\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'This sensitive and comprehensive biography is a celebration of the talent, optimism and humanity of a much-loved author who brought so much pleasure to many.\u003ci\u003e' Good Book Guide\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A loving tribute to the popular Irish writer. Piers Dudgeon, who has written biographies of writers Barbara Taylor Bradford, J.M. Barrie and Daphne du Maurier, does a deft job juxtaposing the allegorical nature of Binchy's fiction to events in her life... Dudgeon delivers a love letter penned to the late author and her fiction... Fans will find new insight to their favorite Binchy works.' \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Dudgeon paints Binchy as a lively and vivacious lover of life in this warm and often humorous record of a woman who was determined to be her own person.' \u003ci\u003eIrish Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pilot Film \u0026 Television Productions Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50497207304466,"sku":"9781900064583","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7d7d038c-97cd-47c2-be61-122a862e072a.jpg?v=1730707137","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/maeve-binchy-the-biography-9781900064583","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}