SCARLET FEATHER

Maeve Binchy delivers a delightful social comedy of the sort no one does better, about a pair of Dublin colleagues who struggle to launch a catering company. Cathy Scarlet is married to the son of the family for whom her mother once scrubbed floors, and her fancy in-laws are not at all pleased. Her partner, Tom Feather, is in love with a spectacularly beautiful girl with an unrealistic idea of where beauty can take her, and a year in the life of their catering company brings ups and downs you haven't dreamed of. Barbara Caruso's warm, lilting reading is as winning as the book itself. B.G. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC/ JAN 02]