"Engrossing." Montreal Gazette "A comfortable novel that’s easy to sink into and lose yourself in." Boston Globe "As good as she gets, which is very good, indeed." Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air "A gift to the reader…For sheer, curl-up, goodbye-real-world storytelling pleasure, it’s hard to beat Maeve Binchy." The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Entertaining." The Washington Post "Engaging." People

Quentins
Maeve Binchy

Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. After all, the restaurant saw the people of a city become more confident in everything from their lifestyles to the food that they chose to eat. And Quentins has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, of betrayal, of revenge; of times when it looked ready for success and of times when it seemed as if it must close in failure. But as Ella uncovers more of what has gone on at Quentins, she begins to wonder whether some secrets should be kept that way…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.

“Quentins is not just any Dublin restaurant; it’s a place where wedding proposals, business deals, family ties and friendships are forged (and sometimes broken).… What is it about this writer that rivets her readers?…You can’t wait to see what’s going to happen next.”—The Seattle Times

Signet, September 2003
448 pages ISBN: 0451209907
Paperback (reprint)
$7.99