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Maeve Binchy: The Biography is a loving tribute to the popular Irish writer who died two years ago at the age of 72.

And much like its subject, the book is at times smart, often entertaining and not without flaws.

Piers Dudgeon, who has written biographies of writers Barbara Taylor Bradford, J.M. Barrie and Daphne du Maurier, does a deft job juxtaposing the allegorical nature of Binchy's fiction to events in her life.

Universal as well as personal themes including self-discovery (Circle of Friends), childlessness (The Copper Beach) and betrayal (Tara Road) take on a new level of meaning.

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To know Binchy's world you need to know her fiction.

There is no doubt Dudgeon is a fan of his subject, and therein lies the biography's problem. His Binchy is more a personality than a real person, facing any and all obstacles with her characteristic wit.

His sources seem to be admirers or people on the periphery of her life rather than