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Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
Category: Fiction
An enchanting novel of fierce loyalty and love in changing times. Big, generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends throughout their childhoods in sleepy Knockglen. When they both go to study in Dublin, they meet a circle of friends that includes handsome Jack Foley and the sel ...Show more
Circle of Friends by Binchy Maeve
Category: Fiction
It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny – the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents… Eve – the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother’s wealthy family to be raised by ...Show more
Dublin 4 by Maeve Binchy
Category: Fiction
A society hostess entertains her husband's mistress to dinner; a country girl savours the delights of city life; a student faces the dilemma of unmarried pregnancy; and a drink-ridden photographer tries to relaunch a shattered career...This vintage collection of stories from the bestselling author of "L ...Show more
Echoes by Maeve Binchy
Category: Fiction
Having grown up in small Irish seaside town in the 1950s, Clare and David meet again years later as students in Dublin. But eventually their home town will draw them back, and it is there that this Maeve Binchy drama of ambition, betrayal and love reaches its turbulent conclusion. Paperback (A-Format ...Show more
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
Category: Romance
Realistically drawn characters, revealed in all their vulnerability and complexity, provide the most enjoyable element of great storytelling: surprise. Hoping to revitalize a dead-end career, Latin teacher Aidan Dunne is forming an evening Italian class. But the prospect of attracting students to his sm ...Show more
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
Category: Fiction
The Italian evening class at Mountainview School is like hundreds of others starting up all over the city. But this class has its own special quality - as the focus for the varied hopes and dreams of teacher and pupils alike. Aidan Dunne needs his new evening class project to succeed almost as much as h ...Show more
Few of the Girls by Maeve Binchy
Category: Fiction
'The Irish do love telling stories, and we are suspicious of people who don't have long, complicated conversations. There used to be a rule in etiquette books that you should invite four talkers and four listeners to a dinner party. That doesn't work in Ireland, because nobody knows four listeners' Maev ...Show more
Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy
Category: Fiction
Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern . . . four lovely children . . . and such wonderful dreams. But all that is about to change one fateful summer when American millionaire Patrick O'Neill comes to town with his irresistible charm, and money to burn. ...Show more
Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy
Category: Fiction
Firefly Summer is the story of four fateful years in the life of a small, sleepy Irish town, and in particular of the family who run the local pub. Interlocking stories of loves lost and won, hopes raised and dashed, ambitions nurtured and secrets betrayed, Firefly Summer is one of the richest and most ...Show more
Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy
Category: Fiction
Kate and John Ryan have four children, of whom the eldest are Michael and Dara. Their small town is peaceful and friendly, an unchanging background for a golden childhood. In long, hot summers Michael and Dara and their friends fish and swim or play in the ivy-clad ruins of Fernscourt, when the great ho ...Show more