![]() ![]() It contrasts the small town's simple pastimes like fishing and swimming with the tastes of the free-spending Americans. Like other Binchy titles, the novel depicts the changes affecting Ireland in the late twentieth century. As construction crews begin working on the project, Kate Ryan is seriously injured at the site, and the entire town is negatively affected by the unfolding events. The novel explores the relationships between the O'Neill teenagers and the Ryan children, as well as the lives of a large cast of secondary characters. ![]() While many of the town's residents are excited about the project's impact on local employment, one of the town's pubs, run by John and Kate Ryan, which is located directly opposite the planned hotel, is threatened with closure by O'Neill's scheme. Patrick O'Neill, an Irish-American businessman, settles with his children in "the land of his ancestors" in order to build a luxury hotel on the site of a derelict mansion. Set in the 1960s, the plot revolves around the people of a rural Irish town named Mountfern. BBC Radio 4 produced a 6-episode, 3-hour dramatization of the novel in 2008. Set in an Irish small town, this third novel by Binchy depicts the changes that affected the country in the late twentieth century. ![]() ![]() Firefly Summer is a 1987 novel by the Irish author Maeve Binchy. ![]()
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