Interview with Maeve Binchy
Author : Maeve Binchy
Performed By : Maeve Binchy
Publisher : Orion Publishing Group
Runtime : 6 minutes
Categories : Biographical
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Included originally as a bonus track within the Maeve Binchy audiobook, "Nights of Rain and Stars", here Maeve talks about hearing her work on audio, narrated by her cousin and friend Kate Binchy.
For a full listing of Orion's Maeve Binchy titles available on Spoken Network, use the search box with author name: Maeve Binchy.
MAEVE BINCHY was born in County Dublin and was educated at the Holy Child convent in Killiney and at University College, Dublin. After a spell as a teacher in various girls' schools, she joined the Irish Times, for which she wrote feature articles and columns. Her first novel, Light A Penny Candle, was published in 1982, and since then she has written more than a dozen novels and short story collections, each one of them bestsellers. Several have been adapted for cinema and television, most notably Circle of Friends in 1995^. The film Tara Road is in production. Maeve Binchy was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award at the British Book Awards in 1999. She is married to the writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell.
KATE BINCHY has worked in every sort of theatre from West End to fringe, on television (Big Bad World, Screen Two, Father Ted, Casualty and Fair City), in over five hundred radio plays, and in films {Mrs Dalloway and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne). She is Maeve's cousin.
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