![]() She has run off to London for great and compelling reasons, where she adopts the name Lena Gray and eventually becomes the director of an important employment agency. She burns the letter, adding another burden to her misery. Authorities find the family's boat overturned, and, when Kit discovers a sealed letter addressed to her father, she fears that the suicide confession will keep her mother from a consecrated burial. ![]() When Kit McMahon is 12, her sad and distant mother disappears while walking along the lake. She sets this story in the small village of Lough Glass, the ``glass lake'' of the title, in Dublin and in London, animating each place more by the robust characterization of the people who live there than by the use of descriptive detail. Bestselling novelist Binchy (Light a Penny Candle Silver Wedding) again explores the passions and priorities of Irish women in a seductively written tale that's a bona fide page-turner. ![]()
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