Stevie and Kit took the little box of ashes and sprinkled them in the lake. The moon was high in the sky and they didn’t feel sad. It wasn’t really a funeral. All that was over, in London and years ago…the first time. This wasn’t a sad thing, it was just the right thing to do.
As having a honeymoon in Wales had seemed the right thing to do. In years to come when people would look back on the history of the place and talk about the people who lived here they might mention Helen McMahon who died in the lake. This way it would be true, her body was in the lake now, like so many who had gone before, but it had gone there peacefully.
It was strange this shorthand which meant that you didn’t have to say things like that to each other. Stevie knew and Kit knew it. As they knew they would live on the lakeshore someday.
Someday when they were old enough to settle down.
About the Author
Maeve Binchy was born and educated in Dublin. She is the bestselling author of The Return Journey, Evening Class, This Year It Will Be Different, The Glass Lake, The Copper Beech, The Lilac Bus, Circle of Friends, Silver Wedding, Firefly Summer, Echoes, Light a Penny Candle, London Transports, Scarlet Feather, Quentins, Nights of Rain and Stars, and Whitethorn Woods. She has written two plays and a teleplay that won three awards at the Prague Film Festival. She has been writing for The Irish Times since 1969 and lives with her husband, writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell, in Dublin.
Books by Maeve Binchy
WHITETHORN WOODS
NIGHTS OF RAIN AND STARS
QUENTINS
SCARLET FEATHER
TARA ROAD
THE RETURN JOURNEY
EVENING CLASS
THIS YEAR IT WILL BE DIFFERENT
ECHOES
THE GLASS LAKE
LONDON TRANSPORTS
THE COPPER BEECH
THE LILAC BUS
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
SILVER WEDDING
FIREFLY SUMMER
LIGHT A PENNY CANDLE
THE GLASS LAKE
A Delta Book
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Delacorte Press hardcover edition published February 1995
Dell mass market edition published April 1996
Delta Trade Paperback edition / June 2007
Published by Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright © 1995 by Maeve Binchy
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 94036104
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