Customer Reviews
The One and Only - By: lani, 06 Jul 2008 
I loved this book. I have read others by Binchy & did not enjoy them as much as I enjoyed this book. I think all of her books are entertaining & she has a wonderful way with characters, but this is the one I have read over & over again. Whenever I don't have a new book to read I always turn to this one. In fact I probably should get a new copy as the spin on mine is shattered.
It's a must read if you are already a fan & one to read if you just like books.
To be fair to our maeve, after reading tara road, - By: Leeds lass, 15 Apr 2008 
I decided to try another one of her books - this one - & i still think someone should give her a nudge & wake her up.
Another Triumph for Maeve Binchey! - By: , 11 Jul 2005 
Having read many of Maeve Bincheys books, i have to say that Cirle of Frieds, one of her earlier novels, is easily one of the best, & a book i would happily recommend to anyone looking for an entertaining, laugh-out-loud, hankies at the ready book.
Based on two friends, Benny & Eve, from a sleepy villagein Ireland, the book centres on friendship & growing up. Binchey deals with love, tradegy, the struggle to fit in, & the strength of true loyalty between friends.
The characters are wonderful, people you love, like, dislike & hate. People you relate to & people you can easily imagine. Maeve Binchey has a talent of making you feel part of the story, making the characters seem like people you know & the heartaches feel like they are yours.
I laughed out loud at this book, as i do at most Binchey novels, she is a truly humerous Irish author. I also shed a few tears! The Irish backdrop, the accents & the lifein a Catholic village with nuns for teachers, is ever popularin Bincheys stories & a formula that works again & again.
Read this book. . . . & appreciate the people close to you. Too often we take the people we love for granted. . . .let Circle of Friends show you real strength among true friends!
Truly wonderful! - By: , 18 Aug 2000 This book is the grandest book I have ever read. It pulls you into to it, makes you feel as if you are part of the story, as if one of the characters. You can't put it down, & when you do, you find your mind wandering back. If you beleivein true friendships, & that comes with sad parts as well, then read this book, it will make you value & friendship you have, even more. A GOOD BOOK!
good- relatively speaking - By: , 23 Jul 2000 
This book is one of two I received for my birthday. I read this one first simply because I know this is a best-selling author & so I assumed this book MUST be good. And it was - no question. I enjoyed it immensely, I loved the characters & and it really engrossed me. Five stars! And then I read the other book, which was "Of marriageable Age" by Sharon Maas who as far as I can tell is an unknown, it ssems this is her first, & I was transported into heaven - Maeve's book is certainly good but Maas's is EXCELLENT, unputdownable, heart-wrenching! SO I give this one only three stars. It just goes to show how relative everything is.
