Quentins

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author = Maeve Binchy
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
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release_date = 2002
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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"Quentins" is a 2002 novel by Irish author Maeve Binchy.

Plot introduction

Ella Brady, a young science teacher, falls in love with a corrupt businessman (Don Richardson) and eventually meets a new man, Derry King, an American businessman. After a torrid affair, Don Richardson leaves Ella, her family, and many people in Dublin without their savings. Ella is disgraced and quits her teaching job to work more than 60 hours a week at Quentins restaurant, with the Scarlet Feather catering company, and with a film crew, to help out her family.

The book mostly concentrates on Ella's attempt to get funding for her friends' film company for a documentary about the restaurant Quentins. She struggles to get over a man who was deceitful, whom she still loves, and with whether or not to give the fraud squad access to a laptop he left in her possession. Smaller plot points revolve around the background of Patrick and Brenda Brennan (the owners of Quentins), Ella's girlfriends Deirdre and Nuala, and many of the regulars at the restaurant.

Major themes

The novel explores themes of love, family, loyalty, and the benefits of hard and honest work.

Maeve Binchy plows into her standard themes of jilted lovers, financial insecurity, and small business entrepreneurship.

Recurring Characters

*Nora O'Donoghue and Aidan Dunne from Evening Class
*Brenda and Patrick Brennan from Evening Class
*Tom Feather and Cathy Scarlet, Maud and Simon Mitchell from Scarlet Feather
*Ria Lynch from Tara Road