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When the insurance company suspects an inside job, Cathy and Tom are potentially ruined. The twins' older brother Walter reappears in their lives periodically, usually causing trouble, including robbing and vandalizing the Scarlet Feather premises. Jarlath's Crescent in a far less affluent part of town, but show the children real love for the first time. With Hannah unwilling to allow the children to stay with her and her husband, they are unofficially adopted by Cathy's parents, Lizzie and Muttie, who live in St. There is also a growing distance between Cathy and Neil due to the pressures of Neil's high-profile law career, and Cathy's realisation that her husband sees the business as a hobby.Ī key subplot is the arrival of Neil's twin nephew and niece Simon and Maud, whose alcoholic mother and errant father have virtually abandoned them. Neil's mother Hannah, against the marriage of her son to the cleaner's daughter, makes life hard for Cathy, while Marcella's ambitions come between her and Tom. The two are close, but not romantically involved - Cathy is married to Neil Mitchell, the son of the wealthy household where her mother Lizzie used to scrub floors, and Tom is in a relationship with beautiful Marcella, who dreams of being a model. The novel follows the fortunes of Cathy Scarlet and her college friend, Tom Feather, who set up a catering business together (the 'Scarlet Feather' of the title). It was the winner of the 2001 WH Smith Literary Award for Fiction. Any book that will bring seniors together, provide entertainment, companionship and purpose is all right by me.Scarlet Feather is a 2000 novel by the Irish author Maeve Binchy. They chose another Binchy book for February.

They rooted for the possible romantic ending. They commiserated over the relationship problems. They wanted the catering company to do well. They thought the characters had fine moral fibre. Each and every one of them loved this book. Luckily, Binchy does a pretty good job of creating supporting characters who are interesting - a pair of nine-year-old twins Cathy's parents (working class, hard working, kind and fair) - but not really enough to sustain an almost 500 page novel.So, why did I give this book a decent review rating? The average age at the book club appears to be about 75. Unfortunately, I found both main characters to be completely unlikeable - uncommunicative, judgemental, childish. The book follows 'a year in the life' - their jobs, their relationships, their families.

Tom Feather and Cathy Scarlet, friends from culinary school open a catering company called Scarlet Feather. I must be one of the few people alive who have never read Maeve Binchy.