I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

The timing was fortuitous as Binchy and her husband were two months behind with the mortgage at the time. Additionally one Sunday attempting to locate where the Last Supper is supposed to have occurred Maeve Binchy climbed a mountainside to a cavern guarded by a Brooklyn-born Israeli soldier.

Maeve Binchy Snell (28 May 1940 – 30 July 2012) known as Maeve Binchy was an Irish novelist playwright short story writer columnist and speaker best known for her humorous take on small-town life in Ireland her descriptive characters her interest in human nature and her often clever surprise endings. B.