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Book Review of Scarlet Feather

Scarlet Feather
Scarlet Feather
Author: Maeve Binchy
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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From the cover - They met in cooking school and became fast friends. Now Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather hope to take Dublin by storm with their newly formed catering company, aptly dubbed "Scarlet Feather." Not everyone, however, shares their optomism. Cathy' mother-in-law disapproves of both Cathy and her new "hobby," while Cathy's husband, Neil, pays no mind to anything - except his work as a civil rights lawyer. And then there's Tom's family, who expects him to follow in his father's foorsteps, and an ambitious girlfriend who's struggling with career dreams of her own. Between friends and families, ups and downs, heartaches and joys, Cathy Scarlett and Tom Feather are about to embark on the most maddening - and exhilarating - year of their lives. . .

From me - I found that this book started very slowly. For the first 150 pages I was thinking "Nothing is happening!". If you can hang in for the first segment though, you'll be rewarded with a quaint picture of the characters, their friends, and their families and you'll probably get a nice warm fuzzy feeling as they all come to understand and accept what is important in life for each of them.