She seizes a challenging opportunity to work with local Firefly Films, owned and operated by good friends Nick and Sandy, on a documentary about the restaurant which carries the title name. A warm, sincere and loving young woman whose misfortune only serves to build her character, Ella soon moves on to better things, stronger and certainly smarter for the experience.

As is typical of Binchy's female protagonists, Ella Brady is a survivor. Her heart is broken when Don suddenly disappears in the midst of a major financial scandal which has ruined Ella's own father. In what seems a very short time, Ella falls in love with Don Richardson, a charming married man who convinces her that his marriage is without substance. Readers are quickly drawn into Ella's life as she moves out on her own to begin her career as a teacher. The story focuses on Ella Brady, the adored, doted-on only child of an older couple. In this author's deft hands, the Dublin restaurant becomes almost as alive as the people whose lives it has affected in one way or another. But it also captures and ties up neatly the lives of numerous characters from Binchy's previous works. Quentins, a name already familiar to Binchy fans, is a novel about a restaurant. It has been said that reading one of Binchy's stories is like coming home. Catching everyone by happy surprise, the recent release of Quentins has been at least a temporary relief from the spectre of the end of this Dublin author's wonderful body of work. With Quentins, Maeve Binchy follows her bestselling Scarlet Feather with a new book that delivers the hallmark storytelling that has kept millions of her readers happy for more than twenty years.Summer rumours to the effect that Maeve Binchy was about to retire had her reading public very concerned. But as Ella uncovers more of what has gone on at Quentins, she begins to wonder whether some secrets should be kept that way. And Quentins has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, of betrayal, of revenge of times when it looked ready for success and times when it seemed as if it must close in failure.

She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant?Įlla Brady thinks so.

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