This is another of those great books by the Irish Author Maeve Binchy. I am a seasoned reader and must say that I always look forward to one of her new releases since they never fail to please.
The story starts with Ria and her family including her charming husband Danny Lynch. Ria is the homely wife who some call pretty but never beautiful. Her best friend however, can have any man because she is just so striking as well as being a successful business woman. There are a variety of other background characters such as Gertie who cleans Ria's house so that she can provide her husband with drinking money. Colm who owns the local restaurant and uses Ria's garden for growing his vegetables and Barney McCarthy, Danny's dodgy associate who has been having a long term affair.
As is usual with Maeve Binchy all these characters have great depth and interact with each other on a regular basis. They all seem to be living a wonderfully happy life until Danny tells Ria that he is leaving her for a slip of a girl that he has got pregnant !
Ria discovers that there are also financial worries that have been kept hidden from her and through a chance phone call from an American woman, she decides to opt for a house exchange. The American, Marilyn is used to privacy and peace, her neighbours are not encouraged to intrude. Ria has enough visitors to be classed a railway station in her own right. 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 !!
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manage to buy the house of their dreams. In 1982, property speculation is beginning to be a big, big thing in Dublin--and their street is very much in an up-and-co...
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Amazon.com Oprah Book Club(r) Selection, September 1999: Against all odds, two newlyweds ... more
manage to buy the house of their dreams. In 1982, property speculation is beginning to be a big, big thing in Dublin--and their street is very much in an up-and-co...
Postage & Packaging: £2.75 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Amazon.com Oprah Book Club(r) Selection, September 1999: Against all odds, two newlyweds ... more
manage to buy the house of their dreams. In 1982, property speculation is beginning to be a big, big thing in Dublin--and their street is very much in an up-and-co...
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Advantages: Pleasant light reading, some great characters, satisfactory ending Disadvantages: Rather convoluted plot, too many minor characters, some a bit flat
Kukana 28.10.2003 (28.10.2003)
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