Everything you need to understand or teach The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy.
Binchy orchestrates themes much the way a composer orchestrates a symphony. Within the first few pages of the novel, she tells the reader that Lough Glass translates as "the green lake," but people call it "the glass lake" because there are times when it resembles a mirror. Town folklore claims that those who look into the lake at sunset on St. Agnes' Eve will see the future. Realists claim that the lake reveals...