Tara Road - Maeve Binchy

...Everybody knows each other's business in Tara Road. These two women swap houses and friends for two months with some very interesting consequences. If you want to know the outcome you will have to read the book. Don't you just hate it when someone tells you the ending !! ...

bandoo 05.01.2001 (06.01.2001) · Read full review
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Review of Tara Road - Maeve Binchy

We are introduced to a whole wealth of characters in this book, which is wonderful because Binchy does characters very well. She also manages to successfully cover over 2 decades in the space of this novel, which is no mean feat. The only downside of this is perhaps that we know our Irish characters much better than our American ones. While this adds a sense of mystery and tension in the story, it doesn't allow us to empathise with the Americans ...
...hopes of a newly married couple who manage to buy a large beautiful house on the cheap (I wish I had their luck!) and build up their life before it suddenly falls to pieces. I was disappointed by Binchy's writing of the main male character Danny, who seems to become a "bad man" merely to serve the needs of the plot. However, the female characters more than make up for this as does the naive wit of youngest son Brian. The relationship between parents ...

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Review of Tara Road - Maeve Binchy

Having read two of Maeve Binchy’s other books, “Light a Penny Candle” and “The Copper Beech”, that I didn’t really enjoy I wasn’t going to be tempted when I saw “Tara Road” at my local newsagents. But I love reading and I was desperate for a good read and it was the best of a lousy selection, along with one other. (but more about that another time…) So, I “paid my money and took my ...
...me for the next two evenings, I couldn’t put that book down, I was engrossed! In my opinion it is different to the other two of hers that I have read, I can’t put my finger on why, It just is. It basically revolves around two main characters, Ria and Marilyn who live opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. It is about their loves, lives etc. One day they decided to swap homes for the Summer and as a result kinda swap lives to some extent. ...

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Review of Tara Road - Maeve Binchy

This is the first book by Maeve Binchy that I have read, I've heard of her before but never thought to buy one of her books. Not that I even had to this time, my mum came to visit and brought it with her telling me that "I just had to read it!", since I've had it I haven't shut it until it was finished. This book is amazing, you lose yourself in the lives of all of them, especially Ria (the main character), and Marylin the American with whom she ...
...Ria lives at home, and is working at an estate agents. She becomes friends with a girl who already works there called Rosemary, who is stunning, compared to Ria who is pretty but not beutiful. Not long after she starts, a man called Danny starts, and for Ria it's love at first site. You follow them through their journey of buying a house, getting married, having children and building their life together. On the outside it is a picture of perfect ...

becky93 24.03.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Tara Road - Maeve Binchy

This is a very absorbing light novel expanding over 2 decades of a families life. It is a story of love,deceit,friendship and courage. It is about two women one is from Ireland and the other is from America.They trade houses but do not meet. The book centres on the life of Ria Lynch in Ireland who is very happily married to Danny Lynch. They settle down down and had a family and life was very good. Danny's career had taken off so financally they ...
...long time Danny starts to spend more time away from home and his family. So because of Danny's unfaithfulness Ria decides to switch homes with the lady from America. It goes through the women's lives and experiences their highs and lows. I found that once I started I just could not put it down so housework got abondoned . If you are looking for a Holiday read this could be the book you are looking for. ...

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