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 Light of Evening The Light of Evening The Light of the Evening is a 2006 novel by Irish novelist Edna O'Brien. The novel explores the relationship between one of O'Brien's archetypal defeated rural women, who on her deathbed is trying repair her relationship with her daughter, a writer. Reception of the novel was mixed. Anne Enright doesn't make a firm conclusion about the novel, but notes two major features when reviewing the novel for "The Guardian:" the novel continue's O'Brien's interest in down trodden, and calls the depiction of life "remarkable [for its] honesty". "Publisher's Weekly" was more positive about the novel noting