On our recent family holiday in Waterford, I was pointed out the house in Dunmore East that was used in the filming of Maeve Binchy’s Echoes. Nothing earth shattering about that except that I’m not going to embarrass myself by telling you how long it has been since I read both Echoes and Light a Penny Candle as a very young teenager tentatively dipping her toe in the world of Big Girl’s Books. Yes, many, many years ago and yet the stories and characters are as fresh in my mind as if I’d finished those yellowed, dog-eared books yesterday.