Эхо чужих желаний

The Irish writer and journalist Maeve Binchy (1940–2012) is well known not only in her homeland but throughout the world. Binchy's works, in addition to short stories, include 16 novels, and her books have consistently become bestsellers and have repeatedly received prestigious international awards. In the 1970s, Binchy published three collections of short stories, quite successfully, but true fame came to her after the release of her first novel "Light a Candle" (1982). Three years later, Binchy's second novel "The Echo of Other People's Desires" was published, also met with a warm response from the reading public. By the sea, in the vicinity of the quiet Irish village of Castle Bay, an echo hides in a cave. People believe that if you ask the echo a question, it will surely answer. One day, two teenagers, David and Claire, come here. They share the same dream: to leave their hometown far behind. Dreams come true. Claire wins a scholarship to University College Dublin and moves to the capital. David, who dreams of becoming a doctor, goes there too. Their paths will cross in the most unexpected way and... will lead them back to the gray desolate Castle Bay, where once, against the backdrop of family secrets, gossip, and tangled relationships, a drama of ambition, betrayal, and love played out… For the first time in Russian!