Quentins by Maeve Binchy Paperback Book

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Author: Maeve Binchy

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: New Amer Library

Published: Aug 2003

Genre: Fiction - General

Retail Price: $9.99

Pages: 448

Synopsis

Quentins is a Dublin restaurant, and when filmmaker Ella Brady arrives to do a documentary on the place, she finds out more than she bargained for. Maeve Binchy brings back some of her old characters and creates many new ones to tell the story of a restaurant and the people behind it.

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Reviews

BookLender review by Elena on 2010-09-30 11:46:59

Maeve Binchy is an extradinary story teller who keeps my attention from start to finish. Ella Brady prevails amid such great hurt and dispair after falling inlove with a married man who is a liar & thief. As a very charming likeable financial adviser he swindles Ella's parents and countless others out of life savings by pretending to invest their money with the promise of successful returns. He convinced Ella that his marriage was in name only for the purpose of his children and being in business with is father-inlaw. He flees to Spain with his wife and children, leaving poor Ella to struggle, working several jobs to help repay for her parents loses. Nothing could be traced to prove this man's crime! But he forgot his laptop computer that he left with Ella which had all the important information he needed to obtain and manage his stolen gain. He tries to get back his laptop through sceming methods. Ella is gullible but with the help of family and friends turns the laptop over to the police. All of the characters involved have visited Quentins. Ella gets the opportunity to help a friend in the film business to do a do***entary about Quentins long history. Even though this job is to aide in Ella'a financial responsibility to her parents and distract her from her pain, she gains much more than she could ever imagined in the outcome.