![]() The boy's sister is in love with a lad who does lucrative jobs for a crime syndicate Signora sees that the crooked becomes straight. The Signora tutors a young failure who begins to percolate in school. He does, and blighted lives begin to bloom. When he was killed in an accident, she returned to Ireland and eventually, as ``Signora,'' came to teach in the evening school that Aidan now hopes to make into a success. ![]() In a remote Sicilian village, Nora had been for years a backstreet love of the man she followed to Italy-a man who'd been forced to marry another. His marriage is loveless, his daughters distant, and he is being bumped as a candidate for a principal's position by a heavy-drinking rouÇ. Heading the list of the forlorn is 48-year-old Aidan, a teacher of Latin who dreams of Italy. Here, the transforming agent is an evening class in Italian taking place in a barracks-like school in a run-down Irish neighborhood. ![]() Binchy (The Copper Beech, 1992, etc.) once again nets a flock of middle- and lower-middle worriers, loners, and groaners, all brooding on their peculiar miseries, until an updraft of love or happy coincidences sets them free. ![]()
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