Quentins

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Summary: Quentins
Review: Mauve Binchy is not at her best in this novel. It is interesting in the beginning, but becomes confusing as she introduces new characters in the middle to the end of the book. Ella Brady is the main character. She is a struggling school teacher who gets tangled into an affair with a married man. He is not just an ordinary married man, but one who is rich and powerful. She soon realizes that despite his good nature and intelligence, he is involved in a scam to cheat all of his clients out of millions of dollars. As the scam unfolds, Ella realizes what she needs to do...


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Summary: It was a good, shallow beach read
Review: This offers a lot of the typical warmhearted Binchy charm, but you've got to put up with the endless pining and whining of the lead character who has built her life around a cheating womanizing crook. By the halfway point, when Ella Brady repeatedly puts off revealing important information (which would benefit everyone she knows) because her lover entrusted it to her, I wanted to step in, give her a hard shake and slap some sense into her. I got the impression that Binchy was drawing things out because if Ella did the right thing she'd wrap up the plot to quickly.