there's so much that i love about evening classes it's a really powerful novel but i also really love the kind of interweaving stories and how maybinchy uses that unusual narrative style and that unusual narrative form to kind of tell the lies of all these people and how they link but don't link
Evening Class (1994)
In Dublin, an evening class of Italian language and culture changes the lives of its students. A girl finds love, a boy abandons crime, a man regains a reason for living. It is the work of the teacher, an Irish woman who followed a married man to Italy and returned to Ireland on his death. A tale of one woman's gift for helping others. By the author of The Copper Beach.
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