A story of love, loss and misunderstanding.

The Glass Lake

Helen croyait avoir tout prévu. Elle avait laissé une lettre pour Martin lui expliquant qu'elle n'avait jamais pu oublier Louis, qu'elle l'avait revu, qu'elle attendait un enfant de lui et qu'il l'emmenait loin de Lough Glass, loin de cette maudite bourgade irlandaise où elle avait toujours vécu à contrecoeur. Elle ne savait pas que Martin ne lirait jamais cette lettre, que leur fille Kit, douze ans, la trouverait avant lui et la détruirait sans l'ouvrir. Elle ne pouvait pas plus savoir qu'un mois après sa disparition, on retrouverait le corps d'une femme qui lui ressemblait dans le lac de Lough Glass. Pour ceux qui l'avaient aimée, elle était désormais morte accidentellement...

Le lac aux sortilèges

En 1960, deux jeunes Irlandais, Deirdre et Desmond, ont scellé leur destin. Ils se sont installés à Londres où sont nés leurs trois enfants. Vingt-cinq ans plus tard ils s'apprêtent à célébrer leurs noces d'argent. Anna, leur fille aimée, a décidé de réunir tous ceux qui étaient présents à leur mariage : le prêtre qui célébra leur union, le séduisant Frank Quigley, ami et patron de Desmond, Maureen, la demoiselle d'honneur qui a réussi dans le monde mais est restée célibataire car éternellement amoureuse de Frank... Anna entreprend aussi de rassembler la famille que la vie a disloquée : Brendan, le fils parti vivre en Irlande, sur la terre des ancêtres et Helen, la petite dernière, entrée au couvent pour une raison mystérieuse. Tous se retrouvent le grand jour venu. Choc des mémoires et des destins. Rien ne sera plus pareil...

Noces irlandaises

En dînant chez Quentin

Dans le restaurant à la mode, chez quentin, se chuchotent mille confessions, histoires d'amour, de trahison et de vengeance, sans oublier celles concernant le personnel ou bien les propriétaires, les brennan, pour lesquels la vie n'a pas toujours été tendre.
C'est toute cette diversité dublinoise qu'Ella Brady veut célébrer en consacrant un documentaire à ce fameux établissement. mais, alors que débute le tournage de son projet, ella va devoir affronter une cruelle désillusion dans sa propre vie et devenir à son tour un objet de curiosité... le réseau qui se tisse autour d'elle va lui faire prendre conscience que certaines passions sont trop secrètes pour pouvoir être racontées.

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

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

Each Friday, Tom Fitzgerald drives the same people home from Dublin to spend the weekend in Rathdoon. Nancy, Dee, Kev and Celia - each has their own secret story, unknown to their fellow passengers. And of course Tom himself has his own reasons for returning home so regularly...

Once again, Maeve Binchy has conjured up a cast of very human characters with real joys and real sadnesses, portrayed with her trademark wit, compassion and warmth.

THE LILAC BUS

"Whatever made us think that a catering business had anything to do with producing food?" asks the exasperated heroine of Maeve Binchy's Scarlet Feather. Cathy Scarlet and her partner Tom Feather had wanted to open their own catering firm ever since they attended college together. When the perfect location finally becomes available at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, they jump straight into renovations, ignoring the owner's mysterious eagerness to sell. But as they soon learn, chasing a dream demands far more than just cream puffs and canapés. In the months that follow, Tom and Cathy weather the ups and downs of founding a small business, soothe many a client's fragile ego, plan and pull off a fairy-tale wedding, minister to two of the most appealingly waifish children this side of Dickens, and generally work themselves to the bone--all the while producing some of the most exquisite food Dublin has ever seen. Binchy is a master spinner of tales, the kind of storyteller who captures the rich tapestry of relationships at work in even the most ordinary of lives. Tom and Cathy come surrounded by a cast of characters as skillfully drawn as themselves: Neil, Cathy's activist-lawyer-husband, who's so busy worrying about the world's problems that he sometimes forgets to worry about his own; beautiful Marcella, Tom's girlfriend, who wants to be a top model more than anything else; and most endearingly of all, Maud and Simon, Neil's neglected 8-year-old cousins, who prove equally talented at wreaking havoc and asking awkward questions. Stir in a full complement of clients, family, friends, and enemies, and you have the makings of a bestseller that's very busy and very Binchy. Tom and Cathy's work, after all, is not so different from that of the novelist herself. Like writers, they stage-manage some of the most important events in people's lives, from weddings and funerals to romances and reunions. Before the year is out, Tom, Cathy, Neil, and Marcella will find themselves changed forever--and Binchy fans will have fallen in love with yet another of her fully realized worlds. --Chloe Byrne

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