View Maeve Binchy And Gordon Snell Background. Maeve married gordon snell, writer and editor of children's books. When they were struggling financially, light a penny candle was published, which made her an overnight success.

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She was single, broke, and expecting a life of spinsterhood until she met gordon snell, freelance producer with bbc. Maeve binchy was a columnist, playwright, short story writer, and novelist. He believed i could do anything, just as my parents had believed all those years ago and i started to write fiction and that took off fine.

After a year flying to see each other at weekends, she asked for the job of the paper's london correspondent and moved.

See all books authored by maeve binchy, including a week in winter, and circle of friends, and more on thriftbooks.com. This site is maintained perhaps it's a trick of the light, or the angle with which he is sitting, facing the sunlight as it streams through the window, but gordon snell's eyes appear to be. Image captionirish author maeve binchy had sold more than 40 million books worldwide. He believed i could do anything, just as my parents had believed all those years ago and i started to write fiction and that took off fine.