Front cover of The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy, paperback

The Glass Lake : The spellbinding, heartbreaking yet uplifting story of families, secrets and the price of love - Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy

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  • Pages · 704 pages
  • Publication Date · 30/07/2026
  • Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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THE GLASS LAKE is Maeve Binchy at her spellbinding best - you'll never want it to end' Woman's Journal'Maeve Binchy really knows what makes women tick. She crystallises their hopes, dreams and passions in her novels and now she has done it again in THE GLASS LAKE ... a marvellous read' Daily MirrorKit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, a place where nothing changes - until the day Kit's mother disappears and Kit is haunted by the memory of her, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming down her face. Now Kit, too, has secrets: of the night she discovered a letter and burned it, unopened. The night her mother was lost. The night everything changed forever...

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