The book mostly concentrates on Ella's attempt to get funding for her friends' film company for a documentary about the restaurant Quentins. Ella is disgraced and quits her teaching job to work more than 60 hours a week at Quentins restaurant, with the Scarlet Feather catering company, and with a film crew, to help out her family. Until the moment when he is exposed as a corrupt swindler and runs away out of the country and out of her life – leaving Ella, her family, and many people in Dublin without their savings. For some time she is happy with the torrid affair, and manages to overlook some inconsistencies in what he tells her. The novel was produced as a BBC Word for Word audiobook in 2003.Įlla Brady, a young science teacher, falls in love with a handsome, suave businessman (Don Richardson) who is married but assures her that his marriage is "dead". The restaurant was referenced numerous times in previous Binchy titles this novel explores its 30-year history as well as the lives of its patrons. The title refers to Quentins Restaurant, a fictional upscale dining establishment in central Dublin, Ireland. Quentins is a 2002 novel by the Irish author Maeve Binchy.
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