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• Format: Large print book - Hardback
• Released: March 2008
• Publisher: Chivers Press
• ISBN: 9781405619707
• Category: Large Print Books Fiction General & literary
• Availability: Available for immediate dispatch
• Our Price: £18.99
• Author Biography: Maeve Binchy was born in Dublin, and went to school at the Holy Child Convent in Killiney. She took a history degree at UCD and taught in various girls' schools, writing travel articles in the long summer holidays. In 1969 she joined the Irish Times and for many years she was based in London writing humorous columns from all over the world. She is the author of five collections of short stories as well as twelve novels including Circle of Friends, The Copper Beech, Tara Road, Evening Class and The Glass Lake. Maeve Binchy is married to the writer Gordon Snell and they live in Dalkey, Dublin.
• Author Website: www.maevebinchy.com/ (link will open in a new window)
• Format(inches): 9x6
• Format(mm): 220x145
• Product Weight: 694gm

Book summary

Each Friday, Tom Fitzgerald drives the same people home from Dublin to spend the weekend in Rathdoon. Nancy, Dee, Kev and Celia ? each has their own secret story, unknown to their fellow passengers. And of course Tom himself has his own reasons for returning home so regularly? Once again, Maeve Binchy has conjured up a cast of very human characters with real joys and real sadnesses, portrayed with her trademark wit, compassion and warmth.