# Open-handed

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-binchy/open-handed/9780141036229

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- Book: [Open-handed](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-binchy/open-handed) ([Open-handed.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-binchy/open-handed.md))
- Authors: [Chris Binchy](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-binchy)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4103-622-9
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2009-06-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The place is Dublin. The time is the present. Five characters - two Irish, three from eastern Europe, all seeking success from wildly different starting points - become entangled with one another in a web of politics, property, sex and violence. Chris Binchy's novel is a beautifully observed portrait of a place and a time, and a thrillingly paced story of an unforgettable group of characters brought together by circumstance, ambition and need.