“I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I’m not insane – I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.”
Maeve Binchy, who, RTE is reporting, has died following a short illness [photographed in her south Dublin cottage with husband Gordon Snell]
Pic courtesy of The Bookshelf
Meanwhile:
@broadsheet_ie Maeve Binchy word cloud tribute 1940-2012 RIP twitter.com/Alangb/status/…— Alangb (@Alangb) July 30, 2012