Maeve Binchy
Author
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
In Ireland, a wife fakes a suicide by drowning and takes off with a pharmacist for London. Years later, after establishing herself in business, she longs for news of her daughter, now a teenager. She writes a letter, signing herself a friend of the mother and a correspondence develops. Now she is dying to see her, but dare she? By the author of Circle of Friends.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
In the Irish town of Schancarrig, the young carve their initials--and those of their loves--into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig's closed doors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realizes that not everything in the placid village is what it seems.
7) Tara Road
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
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Description
Two women, Ria from Tara Road in Dublin, and Marilyn, a New Englander, learn to cope with the crises in their lives and find the strength to go on when they trade homes for the summer.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
To escape the chaos of London during World War II, young Elizabeth White is sent to live a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It is there, in the crowded, chaotic O'Connor household, that she meet Aisling-a girl who soon becomes her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly teaching her the intricacies of Catholicism. Aisling's boldness brings Elizabeth out of her proper shell; later, her support carries Elizabeth through...
10) Evening class
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In Dublin, an evening class of Italian language and culture changes the lives of its students. A girl finds love, a boy abandons crime, a man regains a reason for living. It is the work of the teacher, an Irish woman who followed a married man to Italy and returned to Ireland on his death. A tale of one woman's gift for helping others. By the author of The Copper Beach.
13) Echoes
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
David Power and Clare O'Brien both grew up dreaming of escape from the battered seaside town of Castlebay, Ireland, but they might as well have had the ocean between them. David is the cherished son of a prosperous doctor, while Clare lives with her large family behind their faltering store, longing for a moment of quiet to study. When they both go to university in Dublin-he as a matter of course, she on a hard-won scholarship-their worlds collide....
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