This formula made her an international bestseller and put her in the top 10 of Britain's most popular writers. Maeve's novels dealt with issues such as betrayal and child-parent relationships, tensions between rural and urban life, and the transformations in Irish cultural and religious life in the late 20th century, and she left sex scenes to the imagination rather than provide graphic detail. Tara Road and the short story How About You? also became feature films, and The Lilac Bus (1984) and Echoes were made into television films. In 1995 Circle of Friends, about childhood friends from the village of Knockglen, was made into a film starring Chris O'Donnell and Minnie Driver. The last of these, the story of two women who exchange homes in Ireland and the US for a magical summer, was promoted by Oprah Winfrey, ensuring runaway sales. Among the most popular were Light a Penny Candle (1982), Echoes (1985), Circle of Friends (1990) and Tara Road (1998). Maeve Binchy, who has died aged 72, was a larger-than-life author and journalist, whose novels about love and romance in Ireland sold more than 40m copies in 37 languages.
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