Maeve Binchy

El primer gran best seller de Maeve Binchy narra la historia de dos mujeres unidas por la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el amor, la esperanza y su infancia en las tierras de Irlanda.Londres, 1940. La tension entre la poblacion aumenta a medida que la guerra se vuelve mas virulenta y va dejando tras de si un numero escalofriante de victimas civiles. La ciudad se ha convertido en el blanco de los ataques de las fuerzas aereas alemanas. Violet White teme perder a su hija Elizabeth en un bombardeo y decide enviarla a Irlanda, a casa de Eileen OConnor, su mejor amiga de la infancia. La pequeña solo tiene diez años cuando llega a Kilgarret, pero enseguida se adapta y entabla amistad con la hija de Eileen, Aisling OConnor, quien se convierte practicamente en una hermana para ella.Al terminar la guerra, Elizabeth se ve obligada a regresar junto a su madre en Londres, pero su corazon permanecera para siempre en Irlanda, en casa de los OConnor. Ni siquiera la distancia, el tiempo y el desengaño amoroso lograran truncar su amistad con Aisling.La critica ha dicho...El libro mas encantador que he leido desde Lo que el viento se llevo.Irish IndependentUn libro absolutamente ameno y placentero.The TimesUna primera novela maravillosa, que combina habilidades tan extrañas como el talento por la narracion y un estilo memorable.Jeffrey ArcherBrillante: una novela notable, panoramica e infinitamente entretenida.Molly Keane, Irish PressEl atractivo del estilo de Maeve Binchy radica en una caracterizacion fuerte, una buena narracion y las evocaciones reconfortantes de un mundo acogedor.Telegraph

Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent (featured in MINDING FRANKIE) is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in Maeve Binchy's wonderfully compelling tales:Bucket Maguire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to protect his son. Nessa Byrne, whose aunt comes to visit from America for six weeks every summer and turns the house - and Nessa's world - upside down. Lilian, the generous girl with a big heart, and the fiance not everyone approves of. And Melly, whose gossip about the neighbours leads to trouble in the form of the fortune teller, 'Madame Magic'...No one rivals Maeve Binchy for stories of warmth, kindness, love, loss - and life not always turning out as expected.

A delightful collection of linked stories from No.1 bestselling author Maeve Binchy - simply the bestJust round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent (featured in MINDING FANKIE) is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in Maeve Binchy's wonderful collection of storiesBucket Maquire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to protect his son.Nessa Byrne, who's aunt comes to visit from America for six weeks every summer and turns the house - and Nessa's world - upside down.Lilian, the generous girl with a big heart, and the fiance not everyone approves of.And Melly, whose gossip about the neighbours leads to trouble in the form of a the fortune teller - 'Madame Magic'...No one rivals Maeve Binchy for stories of warmth, kindness, love, loss - and life not always turning out as expected...

In the Irish town of Schancarrig, the young people carve their initials-and those of their loves -- into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig's closed doors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realizes that not everything in the placid village is what it seems. Unexpected passions and fear are bringing together the lives of so many, such as the sensitive new priest and Miss Ross, the slight, beautiful schoolteacher... Leonora, the privileged daughter of the town's ...

Las vidas de Fiona, Thomas, Elsa y David se cruzan de forma accidental pero decisiva durante un verano mágico en un escenario único: un pueblo de la costa griega.En una taberna encaramada en lo alto de un pequeño pueblo griego, las vidas de cuatro desconocidos se cruzan por primera vez. Fiona es una enfermera irlandesa en busca de su lugar en el mundo; Thomas es un profesor de California que añora a su hijo y teme que su ex mujer lo aleje de el definitivamente; Elsa es una presentadora alemana que ha abandonado una prometedora carrera, y el timido David es un ingles decidido a imponerse ante su dominante padre.En un verano que nunca olvidaran y bajo la discreta mirada del tabernero Andreas y de la enigmatica Vonni, una dama irlandesa cuyo dominio del griego no deja de sorprenderles, todos trataran de encontrar un camino para seguir adelante con sus vidas... aunque tal vez no sea necesariamente el que habian imaginado...La critica ha dicho...Una lectura obligatoria. Perfecta para el verano.Mail on SundayEs una de las pocas autoras que logra tocar la fibra sensible. Tiene una gran capacidad para adentrarnos en su mundo, de forma que leer sus libros es como charlar con una vieja amiga. Un libro perfecto para un dia de verano o para animar un dia de lluvia.Daily ExpressDesde el principio te sentiras cautivada por los personajes y te dejaras llevar por la historia.Woman's RealmBinchy es una Dickens. Escribe sobre los dilemas del hombre con un telon de fondo que describe las costumbres morales de la sociedad.Irish TimesFascinante y maravillosa.Sunday Times

Maeve Binchy Read by Kate BinchyIn this extraordinary collection of stories, the world-wide bestselling author of Evening Class once again reveals her incomparable understanding of matters of the heart. In The Return Journey, Maeve Binchy creates powerful compelling stories of love, loss, revelation, and reconciliation. A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip; a man and a woman's mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can be; an insecure wife clings to the illusion of order, only to discover chaos at the hands of a house-sitter who opens the wrong doors; a pair of star-crossed travelers pick up each other's bags, and then learn when you unlock a stranger's suitcase, you enter a stranger's life. These and many more poignant, ironic, often humorous stories - unforgettable slices of life -make up The Return Journey, a spellbinding trip into the human heart.

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no problem at all during the usually turbulent teens. Now in their twenties, Adi is always fighting for or against something: the environment or the whale or battery farming; while Linda lurches from one unsatisfactory relationship to the next. As if this wasn't enough, Clara, a senior cardiac specialist, has a new job to cope with... For Ania, meeting Clara Casey is a miracle: she had never intended to leave her beloved Poland, but after the love of her life has turned sour, her world seems rather empty. Perhaps a new job in a new country will mend her broken heart? Declan is looking forward to joining the clinic - but the six-month posting brings him much more than he expected. Then there's Father Brian Flynn, who finds his doubts about his calling are assuaged by work in his new parish. But when an acquaintance turns into a nightmare he needs help to rescue his reputation...

Contemporary / British English (Available June 2008) Thirty people join an Italian evening class. All have their own reasons. Connie needs to escape from an unhappy home life; Lou has criminal intentions. Aidan and Signora have organised the classes. All their lives are changed forever.

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no problem at all during the usually turbulent teens. Now in their twenties, Adi is always fighting for or against something: the environment or the whale or battery farming; while Linda lurches from one unsatisfactory relationship to the next. As if this wasn't enough, Clara, a senior cardiac specialist, has a new job to cope with... For Anya, meeting Clara Casey is a miracle: she had never intended to leave her beloved Poland, but after the love of her life has turned sour, her world seems rather empty. Perhaps a new job in a new country will mend her broken heart? Declan is looking forward to joining the clinic - but the six-month posting brings him much more than he expected. Then there's Father Brian Flynn, who finds his doubts about his calling are assuaged by work in his new parish. But when an acquaintance turns into a nightmare he needs help to rescue his reputation...

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no problem at all during the usually turbulent teens. Now in their twenties, Adi is always fighting for or against something: the environment or the whale or battery farming; while Linda lurches from one unsatisfactory relationship to the next. As if this wasn't enough, Clara, a senior cardiac specialist, has a new job to cope with...For Ania, meeting Clara Casey is a miracle: she had never intended to leave her beloved Poland, but after the love of her life has turned sour, her world seems rather empty. Perhaps a new job in a new country will mend her broken heart? Declan is looking forward to joining the clinic - but the six-month posting brings him much more than he expected. Then there's Father Brian Flynn, who finds his doubts about his calling are assuaged by work in his new parish. But when an acquaintance turns into a nightmare he needs help to rescue his reputation...

Dr. Clara Casey dachte, ihr Job als Kardiologin sei ihr sicher. Aber sie wird versetzt und soll eine Herzrehabilitationsklinik mit aufbauen. Dabei hat sie mit zwei Töchtern und ihrem aufdrin

The town of Rossmore is a special place, full of character charm. Nestled beside the Whitethorn Wood, the town has grown since the days when it was small and friendly and everyone knew everyone else; now it has chain stories and traffic problems and housing estates. But still, there is the Whitethorn Wood, full of spiky bushes and criss-crossed with paths; and there's St Ann's Well, where generations have come to pray or make wishes or just to look back at the pretty little town. Which is why there is going to be such a fuss about the plans for the new motorway. It's going to by-pass Rossmore, cutting through the Whitethorn Wood and endangering the well itself. The new road will bring jobs and relieve traffic in the town; for others, it will destroy businesses and leave the town a backwater. The people of Rossmore are divided. There is a lot of land standing in the way of the great road of progress. Quite by accident the decision rests on Neddy Nolan - the most honest man in Rossmore. A man determined to do the right thing.

Aproposed highway near the Irish town of Rossmore will mean the destruction of St. Ann's Well, a shrine in Whitethorn Woods thought to deliver healing, husbands and other miracles. The shrine resides in the parish of Fr. Brian Flynn, curate of St. Augustine's. As a fracas erupts between shrine skeptics who want the highway and shrine believers who want the shrine preserved, Flynn, unsure of where he stands on the issue and questioning his place in an increasingly secular Ireland, goes to the shrine and prays that he might "hear the voices that have come to you and know who these people are." Binchy (Tara Road) goes on to deliver just that: a panoply of prosaic but richly drawn first-person characters, such as Neddy Nolan, a not-so-simple simpleton; 60-something Vera, who finds love on a singles trip meant for those much younger; and unassuming antiques magnate James, whose wife of 26 years is dying. Stories of greed, infidelity, mental illness, incest, the joys of being single, the struggles of modern career women, alcoholism, and the heartbreak of parenting span generations, simply and poignantly. Binchy takes it all in and orchestrates the whole masterfully. 400,000 announced first printing.