Scarlet Feather
(Maeve Binchy)
Two friends, Tom Feather and Cathy
Scarlet start a catering company in Dublin.
The story follows them as they struggle
to balance it with Tom's girlfriend Marcella's attempts to become a
model and Cathy's husband Neil's busy career as a lawyer. Neither of
them are quite taken seriously and Tom's parents' disappointment
at him not joining the family builders is almost mirrored by the
disapproval that Cathy gets as a matter of
fact from her snobbish mother in law. Hannah remains convinced that
her cleaner's daughter is just not good enough for her son, whatever
she does, until events are turned on her late in the book.
The business momentum is just starting
to make life very busy for Cathy and Tom when two children turn up at
a party that Scarlet Feather are catering for Cathy's parents in law.
Enter Simon and Maud, twin children of Neil's paternal uncle,
troubled at first, but rounding out beautifully in character and
central to the ending. They add charm and excitement to Cathy's life,
give Cathy's parents Muttie and Lizzie a chance to come alive again
themselves, add roundness to much of the story, balance its potential
for bleakness amidst various catastrophes in its
middle chapters, and then pit them all along with a
wonderfully portrayed young social worker against Simon and Maude's
uncaring and unaware family. There is a marvelous
twist as one of the family turn against Tom and Cathy and a well
balanced ending as the situation becomes uncovered and he shows
compassion, almost managing to redeem himself - but not quite. The
shy and quiet accountant that arranges for their premises and then
becomes a great strength to the business, Cathy's glamorous aunt who
is also one of her closest friends and Tom's wheeler dealer brother
all add to the overall picture with parts of their own very different
and very colourful and well ? written stories.
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