Copper Beech, the

By Maeve Binchy

Subjects: Villagers, Pastoral fiction, Secrecy, Landleben, Fiction, general, Country life, Large type books, Manners and customs, Villages, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Ireland, fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction, christian, general

Description: In the Irish town of Schancarrig, the young people carve their initials--and those of their loves-into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig's closed doors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realizes that not everything in the placid village is what it seems.From the Hardcover edition.