We are sitting in his study in the home he once shared with his late wife Maeve Binchy. Maeve was a great multitasker; she could answer the phone or listen to music while she wrote, which I could never do. Gordon Snell and Maeve Binchy with Barbara Bush at the White House. Snell and Binchy met in London when he was working as a radio producer for the BBC and Binchy was a journalist for The Irish Times. Maeve Binchy in 2005 alongside a portrait of herself by Maeve McCarthy.

Source: Irish Independent April 06, 2019 01:32 UTC