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Book Review By Delight Comphel
Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy

This is a story of two young women who meet as children and have a very close and wonderful relationship throughout their lives. It is a story of misguided love and unreturned love and unsatisfactory relationships for each of these women.


Plot & Themes
Difficult/unusual lover? Yes
How difficult?
Seduction/coercion/force Yes
Struggling with whom? - Dad
Who is... - who is "out of it"
If one lover chases another... -
Who seduces whom? - man seducing woman
Family focus? Yes
Family, hating Yes
Family, sick/caring for Yes

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Sex makes him

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Effect of sexing

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
What % of story is romance related? - 70%
Focus of story - Her
How much dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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