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"Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent...is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in Maeve Binchy's wonderful collection of stories: Bucket Maguire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to protect his son. Nessa Byrne, who...

Collects the best of the author's essays from five decades of the "Irish Times" to reflect a changing culture as well as her observations on such topics as the royal wedding, waitressing, and boring airline companions.

Friendship, love, and misplaced hope drive the characters who populate a new collection of Maeve Binchy stories.

From her earliest writing to her most recent, Maeve Binchy's work has included both nostalgic pieces and sharp, often witty, writing which is insightful and topical. But at the heart of all her fiction are the people and their relationships with each other. This volume offers a g...

Follows the efforts of Chicky who, with the help of Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the place) and her niece Orla (a whiz at business), turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of ...

At Stone House, Henry and Nicola are burdened with a terrible secret. Winnie finds herself on the holiday from hell. Then there's John, who arrived on impulse after he missed a flight at Shannon; eccentric Freda, who claims to be a psychic - and the silent, watchful Nell, who see...

Ria Lynch and Marilyn Vine have never met - one lives in Dublin, and the other in Connecticut. A chance phone call results in exchanging homes, and leads to a magical summer.

Marilyn Vine's idyllic life in Connecticut is devastated by the tragic death of her only son, Dale, during his 15th birthday party. 3,000 miles away, Ria Lynch's marriage comes to a stunningly abrupt end in Dublin, Ireland, when husband Danny reveals that he is leaving her for hi...

Benny Hogan and Eve Malone are two inseparable young Irish women, growing up in the village of Knockglen. Together, Benny and Eve knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains...except their own. The pair leave for university in Dublin and meet Nan Mahon and Jac...

Everything is charming in Rossmore. No longer a sleepy Irish town, where the young people leave to travel the world; nowadays it's a prosperous place, so busy that a new bypass has been proposed. The people of Rossmore are divided, particularly since the road will go right throug...

Baby Frankie is born into an unusual family. Her mother is desperate to find someone to take care of her child and she doesn't have much time. Noel doesn't seem to be the most promising of fathers but despite everything, he could well be Frankie's best hope. As for Lisa, she is p...

Dee loves her children very much, but now that they are all grown up, shouldn't they leave home? Rosie, Helen and Anthony are happy at home, and surely their parents like having a full house? When a crisis occurs, Dee decides things have to change for the whole family - whether t...

When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once she's born but as a single father battling demons of his own, Noel can't do it alone. He has a caring network of friends and family, but a social...

A story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new in Ireland.

Four people from different corners of the world, each with his or her life in turmoil, are thrown together by an unexpected tragedy.

In Dublin, a disparate group assembles for an introductory Italian course held in a drab classroom every Tuesday and Thursday. For this evening class, and their teacher, dreams of Italy guide them to new friendships, to new understandings of themselves, and ultimately, on a magic...

Follows the efforts of a woman who turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of a week share laughter and the heartache of respective challenges..