Maeve Binchy — Firefly Summer
Random House (UK) 1997 Paperback, 512pp. It was a summer of warmth. Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern. lovely twelve-year-old twins. and such wonderful dreams. It was a summer of innocence. but all that is about to change this fateful summer of 1962 when American millionaire Patrick O'Neill comes to town with his irresistible charm and a pocketful of money. when love and hate vie for a town's quiet heart and old traditions begin to crumble away. It was a summer of love that would never come again. A time that has been captured forever in Maeve Binchy's compelling family drama. a novel you will never forget. (ISBN: 9780099485414). Fair.