Light a Penny Candle ; The Lilac Bus

This volume contains two beloved works by Maeve Binchy. The first is *Light a Penny Candle*, a captivating coming-of-age novel that charts the powerful and enduring friendship between two young girls from different worlds. Elizabeth White, a shy English girl evacuated from Blitz-battered London during WWII, is sent to live with the boisterous O'Connor family in the small Irish town of Kilgarret, where she meets Aisling O'Connor. Their bond sustains them through two turbulent decades of change, chaos, joy, and sorrow. The second is *The Lilac Bus*, a collection of eight interrelated short stories that follow a group of seven commuters from the fictional West Ireland village of Rathdoon. Every Friday night, they travel home from Dublin on a lilac-colored minibus, each with their own secret life, dreams, and reasons for making the journey, as their private stories unfold and intersect.

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