Helen McMahon a trahi les siens, ses enfants, son mari, en se noyant un soir d'hiver. Sa fille jettera au feu les confessions écrites de sa mère, pour lui éviter l'infamie. Mais qui était vraiment Helen McMahon, que cachait-elle de son passé ?

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In this extraordinary collection of stories, the New York Times-bestselling author of Evening Class and This Year it Will Be Different once again reveals her incomparable understanding of matters of the heart. In The Return Journey, Maeve Binchy brings us sons and lovers, daughters and strangers, husbands and wives in their infinite variety--powerfully compelling stories of love, loss, revelation, and reconciliation.A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip....A man and a woman's mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can be....An insecure wife clings to the illusion of order, only to discover chaos at the hands of a house sitter who opens the wrong doors....A pair of star-crossed travelers take each other's bags, and then learn that when you unlock a stranger's suitcase, you enter a stranger's life. In their company are many more, whose poignant, ironic, often humorous stories--unforgettable slices of life--make up The Return Journey, a spellbinding trip into the human heart.Maeve Binchy was born and educated in Dublin. She is the author of the bestselling books Evening Class, This Year It Will Be Different, The Glass Lake, The Copper Beech, The Lilac Bus, Circle of Friends, Silver Wedding, Firefly Summer, Echoes, Light a Penny Candle, and London Transports, three volumes of short stories, two plays, and a teleplay that won three awards at the Prague Film Festival. She has been writing for The Irish Times since 1969 and lives with her husband, Gordon Snell, in Dublin.From the Hardcover edition.

Histoires de Rencontres

Big, generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends growing up in sleepy Knockglen. Their one thought is to get to Dublin, to university and to freedom...On their first day at University College, Dublin, the inseparable pair are thrown together with fellow students Nan Mahon, beautiful but selfish, and handsome Jack Foley. But trouble is brewing for Benny and Eve's new circle of friends, and before long, they find passion, tragedy - and the independence they yearned for.

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With each new book, Maeve Binchy continues a remarkable progression of sales and audience growth, reaching fans of all ages and backgrounds with her matchless wit, warmth, and sheer storytelling magic. "Tara Road," her first full-length novel since "The Glass Lake," again shows her incomparable understanding of the human heart in the tale of two women, one from Ireland, one from America, who switch lives, and in doing so learn much about each other, as well as much about themselves.Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. By a chance phone call, Ria meets Marilyn, a woman from New England unable to come to terms with her only son's death and now separated from her husband. The two women exchange houses for the summer with extraordinary consequences, each learning that the other has a deep secret that can never be revealed.Drawn into lifestyles vastly differing from their own, at first each resents the news of how well the other is getting on. Ria seems to have become quite a hostess, entertaining half the neighborhood, which at first irritates the reserved and withdrawn Marilyn, a woman who has always guarded her privacy. Marilyn seems to have become bosom friends with Ria's children, as well as with Colm, a handsome restaurateur, whom Ria has begun to miss terribly. At the end of the summer, the women at last meet face-to-face. Having learned a great deal, about themselves and about each other, they find that they have become, firmly and forever, good friends.A moving story rendered with the deft touch of a master artisan, "Tara Road" is Maeve Binchy at her very best — utterly beautiful, hauntingly unforgettable, entirely original, and wholly enjoyable.

Sur la route de Tara

Maeve Binchy's highly successful Quick Read - reissued specially for the 2007 World Book Day promotion.

STAR SULLIVAN - QUICK READS

Modern fictionAn enchanting novel of fierce loyalty and love in changing times, that was made into a film starring Minnie Driver.

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

Elles sont anglaises, irlandaises ou d'origine jamaïcaine. Certaines sont folles de bonheur, d'autres désespérées. Elles ont en commun de vivre à Londres, pour un instant, un week-end, un fan, dix ans...et de se déplacer en métro. A chacune une station, une histoire, son histoire...Julia erre dans les sex-shops de Tottenham Court Road ; Rita vit en secret une histoire d'amour avec une star de cinéma ; Eve, la mystérieuse secrétaire, va d'entreprise en entreprise afin d'aider les femmes à obtenir le poste qu'elles méritent ; Margaret vole dans les magasins de Bond Street...Vingt-deux nouvelles tendres et cocasses, vingt deux magnifiques portraits de femmes.

Portraits de femmes

Elisabeth a 10 ans lorsque ses parents l'envoient en Irlande à l'abri des bombes qui s'abattent sur Londres. Elle découvrira alors la chaleur et la générosité du clan O'connor et connaîtra une amitié indestructible.

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