Scarlet Feather

Hardcover, fine condition. Dust jacket likewise fine, with no marks. Pages clean and unmarked, and the copy appears unread — a beautiful reading experience preserved in this clean hardcover edition. First American printing, March 2001. Published by Dutton, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., New York, originally published in Great Britain in 2000 by Orion Publishing Group. Maeve Binchy was born in County Dublin and educated at the Holy Child convent in Killiney and at University College, Dublin; after a spell as a teacher, she joined The Irish Times. Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, was published in 1982, and she went on to write more than twenty books. Winner of the 2001 WH Smith Literary Award for Fiction. Set over the course of a year in contemporary Dublin, the novel follows Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather, cooking school friends who open a catering business together, Scarlet Feather, even as their personal lives threaten to unravel around them. ISBN 0-525-94593-8.