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Maeve Binchy's Treasury

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Over 40 Heartwarming Stories

by Maeve Binchy
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/04/2013
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Maeve Binchy is one of the world's best loved story tellers. This collection from Australia and around the world gives us stories that are sad and happy, thoughtful and humourous, but always abounding with the author's trademark generosity of spirit. Families, friends, lovers and the lonely, all are drawn with affection and wisdom.

Elsa makes a Christmas wish at the Statue of Liberty which comes true in a most unexpected way.

Amy opts for the simple life when Dan bites off more than he can chew.

Frankie uses an unexpected trip with Robert to find out what she really wants from their relationship.

Victor, a self-confessed hopeless romantic, accompanies a friend to Australia with no thought of love on his mind.

Nick and Janet meet at the Sydney Fish Markets ... everything seems perfect, what could go wrong?

Victoria imagines what it would mean to her widowed father to join her in his beloved Paris for a weekend.

Bran enters a competition to broaden his horizons.
ISBN:
9781743315842
9781743315842
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-04-2013
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
544
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x38mm
Weight:
0.66kg
Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy was born in County Dublin and educated at the Holy Child convent in Killiney and at University College, Dublin. After a spell as a teacher she joined the Irish Times.

Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, was published in 1982 and she went on to write over twenty books, all of them bestsellers. Several have been adapted for cinema and television, most notably Circle of Friends and Tara Road.

Maeve Binchy received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Book Awards in 1999 and the Irish PEN/A.T. Cross award in 2007.

In 2010 she was presented with the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bord Gais Irish Book Awards by the President of Ireland. She was married to the writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell for 35 years, and died in 2012.

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Maeve Binchy’s Treasury is a collection of 43 short stories by popular Irish author, Maeve Binchy, and includes five previously unpublished stories. The collection encompasses all the stories contained in This Year It Will Be Different and The Return Journey, most of those in Cross Lines and one story from No Nightingales, No Snakes. This review will deal with the remainder.

There are a myriad of different settings for these stories: as well as Dublin and the Irish countryside, characters go to London, Greece, New York, the Riviera and more. Many are set at or close to Christmas. Some are very short, others quite a bit longer. Love is lost and found, problems are solved and friendships forged. Quarrels are averted, a wish comes true, a wrong shopping disaster turns out well, a new pregnancy elicits a surprising reaction and a Greek holiday goes in an unexpected direction. Binchy’s strength is in her characters and their interactions, and, whether in short stories or full length novels, her heart-warming tales are winners.

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