Evening Class (novel) Evening Class (novel) Evening Class is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was adapted as the award-winning film "Italian for Beginners" (2000) by writer-director Lone Scherfig, who failed to formally acknowledge the source, although at the very end of the closing credits is the line 'with thanks to Maeve Binchy'. A story of many Irish men and women from various backgrounds and how a teacher, Nora O'Donoghue (known as "Signora"), and an Italian evening class changes their lives over the course of a year. Each chapter deals with the life story of one or more students in the class. In
The World in the Evening Elizabeth’s novel "The World in the Evening". Mariano Galdos is Elizabeth’s lover and a character in the novel named Gurian. Mary Scriven is another of Elizabeth's correspondents. A German doctor performs emergency surgery on Elizabeth in Greece. Lee, Dale, Ben, Jo, Joyce, Glen, and Pierre are friends of Jane's. Henri was Michael’s best friend, killed in the war . Shirley is a friend of Jane’s who introduces herself to Monk. Martin Gates is a friend of Jane's whom Monk suspects of being the real father of their child. The World in the Evening The World in the Evening by Christopher