![]() The stage is thus set for La Signora to work her magic, drawing out the secrets and the romance in her students' lives. He recruits Nora, whose repatriation to Ireland is precipitated by the death of her longtime married Sicilian lover, to teach Italian language and culture. After being passed over for the principal's job he desperately wants, underappreciated teacher Aidan Dunne is offered, as a pacifier, the job of spearheading a program of adult education classes. ![]() A banker with a spendthrift girlfriend a studious teenager with an overprotective older sister a thug looking to go straight while needing a place to stash illegal goods-the lives of these and many other Dubliners are touched by Signora, nee Nora O'Donoghue, whose adult education class, ""Introduction to Italian,"" becomes a lesson in what it means to be alive, in Binchy's richly satisfying new novel. ![]()
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