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
Number 11 (novel) Meanwhile, Erica Wagner of the "New Statesman" concluded that while the novel could be seen as preachy, it makes good points about London under austerity measures. However, Robert Epstein of "The Independent" deplored that the novel was "too obvious, both in its targets and in their subsequent takedown". In "The London Evening Standard", Andrew Neather conceded that the novel was "first-class entertainment", but he lamented that it did not live up to a proper satire. Reviewing it for "The Guardian", Alex Clark called it "a political novel" as well as an "interrogation of the purposes and efficacy of humour in