Evening Class (novel) a Dickensian way, they bump into each other and are affected by the decisions of those around them. It is a story of love and deceit, family drama, wealth and poverty, of friendship and courage. Nora O'Donoghue and Aidan Dunne also appear in "Quentins", another novel by Maeve Binchy, and play a more significant role in "Heart and Soul". The novel heavily inspired the plot of the Danish feature film "Italian for Beginners" (2000), which won a Silver Berlin Bear and several other major international awards. Maeve Binchy was not paid, credited nor informed of this, but was later paid
The Great Lover (novel) practitioners of the literary historical novel and that this is her best novel yet." Thomas Mallon of "The Washington Post", unlike other reviewers, gave a much more lukewarm assessment of the novel. He wrote, ""The Great Lover" is conscientious and good-hearted, but for all its class-crossing improbability, still rather timid." For Mallon, the novel does not treat Brooke during his most interesting part of his life: during the first World War, when he becomes a public figure. The Great Lover (novel) The Great Lover is a 2009 biographical novel by Jill Dawson. The novel follows the fictional Nell Golightly as