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Marian Keyes on Maeve Binchy
by Jem at 18:08 on 04 August 2012

Lovely piece in today's Guardian:-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/03/my-hero-maeve-binchy-marian-keyes

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Re: Marian Keyes on Maeve Binchy

by Account Closed at 19:53 on 04 August 2012

It is a lovely piece. I like this especially:

"Irish" English moves to a unique, euphonious rhythm. As a result our sentences sound different. Not in a way that's easily identifiable when you're in casual conversation, but they're longer, more curlicued, oddly constructed and very beautiful.

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Re: Marian Keyes on Maeve Binchy
by Jem at 23:03 on 04 August 2012

Yes. They are so.

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