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by Maeve Binchy
Benny Hogan, the cherished only daughter of a shopkeeper in the small Irish town of Knockglen, and Eve Malone, an orphan raised by the nuns, have planned for years to go to university in Dublin together. In the late 1950s they finally do, and find a wider circle of friends, a first love for Benny, and a betrayal neither of them saw coming.
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