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“Fast friends who share a dream for success, Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather have dreamt of having their own catering business. Behind them are a team of supporters - Cathy's husband, the pragmatic lawyer, her blue collar family and Tom's model-gorgeous girlfriend.
Enter hopes dashed, frustration and two engaging waifs who nearly steal the story. And it becomes very clear that small town folks do not always lead humdrum lives.
Behind the closed doors of their pleasant houses, tears are shed, grief is shared and the nuances of day-to-day existence rear their colorful heads.
Maeve Binchy (author of "Circle of Friends) proves that she is an articulate storyteller - joining just enough of idiosyncrasy into her characters to make them believable. Better yet, some endear themselves to you while others anger you just by appearing on a page. Her talent for drawing the reader deeper into the heart of her ordinary characters produces an extraordinary relationship between the two. You are sorry to turn the last page, to see the tale end. And you wonder how fictitious lives could affect you so much.
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TravelKage wrote this review Tuesday, October 17, 2006.
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