# Open-handed

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-binchy/open-handed/9780141889788

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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
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4188-978-8
- Published: 2008-09-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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 breakthrough novel is a beautifully observed portrait of a time and place, and a thrillingly paced story of characters brought together by circumstance, ambition and need.