A review by thisandthatwithkaren
Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy

5.0

I first read this book in 1989 when it was first published and my copy was read so often that it was very tattered and worn. I think this was my favourite of all the books I owned by Binchy. I found myself transported to the mid-century Irish village of Mountfern, with all its uncertainties, family, coming of age, and love.
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.

I loved the characters, the story drew me in and I wanted to know what they were feeling and what would happen to them. Highly recommend