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Reviewed by Rabia Tanveer for Readers' Favorite
Abbey Girls by Valerie Behan and Mary Behan is a non-fiction memoir that will take you back in time and give you an uncharted look at Ireland in the 1960s. Although this might seem like an ordinary memoir, it really is not at all. Imagine two girls living in a boarding school and spending a lot of time together. Now flash forward many decades and imagine the two women sharing their old times, only to find that they both perceived the events rather differently.
Abbey Girls is basically about the six years Mary and Valerie Behan spent at the Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham boarding school. The book is mostly in the style of letters that the two sisters wrote to each other. The two sisters are recounting their days at the boarding school that followed strict tradition and religion. The reader will feel a sense of camaraderie with these two women because we all have felt this connection with our very close/best friends.
Their letters are very humorous and downright hilarious in some places. Plus, readers get to see the old Dublin and Ireland, and how things were in the '60s. The storyline in itself is based on real events that happened in these women’s lives and is why this book has a certain charm to it that cannot be ignored. It is bittersweet, sweet, and very infectious. I am really certain that any person who reads this will not be able to put it down.
