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Tara Road

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Tara Road

by Maeve Binchy

McArthur & Company | August 12, 1999 | Mass Market Paperbound

Her stories crackle with the true charm and observational wit of an Irish writer. Maeve Binchy is back at her best in her latest novel, Tara Road. Poor Ria Lynch has just found out that her husband has a pregnant, young mistress. Ria decides to trade her gorgeous Victorian house on Tara Road for a few weeks of the summer living in a home in New England. Two women exchange homes and neighbours and enter into totally different worlds. They experience love, friendship, petty rivalry, intense jealousy and discover some secrets along the way. Binchy fans won't be disappointed with Tara Road.
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    Rating: 3/5

    Real tough to get through.

    Forgotten Realms Queen

    17 months ago

    A good story about a woman who has to redefine herself as something beyond a wife and mother when her husband leaves her for another woman. It took me a while to get through, as the story was quite thick and not one to be easily rushed through.

    It's a beautiful coming of age/personal self discovery story of two women, one who was abandoned by her husband, the other reeling from the death of her son, both needing to move one but neither knowing quite how to do it until they randomly contact each other and agree to trade lives for a few months.

    I like how they were so able to trust each other after being so hurt, and the transformations they make in each others lives despite never really meeting in person.

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    Rating: 5/5

    My Favourite!

    Lesley Chapman

    3 years ago

    Tara Road is my favourite Maeve Binchy book of all time. I was hooked from the start, and sad when it was done.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Phenomenal

    loulou7815

    4 years ago

    This was the first Maeve Binchy book I had ever read. I knew I was going to be hooked on her when I was only one-quarter of the way through and was disappointed that the story was going to end at some point. Tara Road is heart-warming, intriguing and a deep look at the lives of two very different women who come from very different backgrounds. I highly recommend it!

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    margaret

    Rating: 5/5

    tara road

    margaret

    13 years ago

    this is excellent writing once again as only MEAVE BINCHEY knows how. The charaters come to life ,you have the feeling that you have met these people before. I could'nt put it down well worth the read if you are a MEAVE BINCHEY fan like myself.

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Her stories crackle with the true charm and observational wit of an Irish writer. Maeve Binchy is back at her best in her latest novel, Tara Road. Poor Ria Lynch has just found out that her husband has a pregnant, young mistress. Ria decides to trade her gorgeous Victorian house on Tara Road for a few weeks of the summer living in a home in New England. Two women exchange homes and neighbours and enter into totally different worlds. They experience love, friendship, petty rivalry, intense jealousy and discover some secrets along the way. Binchy fans won't be disappointed with Tara Road.

About the Author

Irish-born Maeve Binchy is a teacher turned newspaper columnist turned novelist. She was born in Dublin on May 28, 1940. Her father was a lawyer and her mother a nurse. She received her B.A. in 1960 from University College in Dublin. After teaching at a school for girls, she became a columnist for the Irish Times in 1968. By 1979, Binchy was writing plays, a successful television script, and several short story collections. Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle (1982), was a Literary Guild Dual Selection. Two of her novels, Silver Wedding (1989) and Circle of Friends (1991), have been Book-of-the-Month Club selections. Currently, there are more than six million copies of her books in print. Binchy's novels are usually set in rural Ireland, where Binchy seems to capture the dynamics of life and relationships in small towns. A Circle of Friends, successfully translated into a popular film, is the coming-of-age story of three young women in 1950s Dublin. Binchy lives in a suburb of Dublin.

Mass Market Paperbound

4.41 x 7.01 x 1.34 IN

August 12, 1999

McArthur & Company

English


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9781552780800

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