Kit struggles to grow up without her mother and with the stigma of her mother's death. In fact, Helen has left her kindly but unexciting husband Martin and two children to run off to London to be with her dashing lover, and left the note to let them know that she would like to keep in touch with her children as they grow up. Kit finds a letter from her mother and burns it before reading it, fearing that a suicide note will prevent her from meriting a church burial. Helen McMahon disappears when her daughter Kit is 12 years old, and it is suspected that she drowned in the local lake. Binchy explores the roles of women in Irish society and inconstant lovers, and uses an operatic plot to hold the reader's attention. It is notable as the last of Binchy's novels to be set in the 1950s. The action takes place in a rural Irish village as well as in London in the 1950s. The Glass Lake is a 1994 novel by the Irish author Maeve Binchy.
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