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

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

CHESTNUT STREET

"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

Les Saveurs de la vie

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

Qui n'a jamais eu envie de faire escale en Irlande, de pousser la porte d'une chaumière et de regarder crépiter un bon feu de tourbe ? A Shancarrig par exemple... Un village adorable niché au coeur des Midlands. Un endroit calme en apparence, mais où il se passe parfois des choses étonnantes.
Grâce aux enfants d'abord... Une ribambelle d'enfants - amis pour le meilleur et pour le pire - qui polissonnent sur les bancs de l'école et échangent des serments. Grâce à l'amour ensuite... L'amour qui pousse un adolescent miséreux à s'élever et à réussir, une femme du monde à commettre un crime; ou qui accule l'institutrice des petits au désespoir...

Les Secrets De Shancarrig - Occasion

Maeve Binchy possède un talent certain pour donner vie à un village perdu au coeur de la campagne irlandaise. Shancarrig devient, sous sa plume, le centre du monde. Calme en apparence, il bruisse pourtant des mille et une espiègleries des nombreux enfants qui y vivent. Et comme il est vrai que tout le monde a toujours quelque chose à cacher, les adultes ne sont pas en reste dès lors qu'il s'agit de protéger leurs petits secrets...

Les secrets de Shancarrig

"It was sometimes called the echo cave, and if you shouted your question loud enough in the right direction, you got an answer instead of an echo..." Clare and David--divided as children by a rigid social code that branded her as shanty Irish and him as gentry...brought together as adults by a desire that knew no class, no barriers, only the urgent hunger of two people destined to love--and ready to defy a world determined to keep them apart.Even at fifteen, David Power knew the echo would answer eleven-year-old Clare O'Brien's dearest wish, to win a school prize. But it was years before Dr. Power's cherished only son saw in the huckster's daughter the answer to his own heart's desire. Here in Castlebay, perched precariously on the seaside cliffs, the lines between them were clearly drawn. Clare's only hope is to leave the town where time stopped, propelled by scholarships to Dublin, fueled by her own drive and brilliance, far from the insular, gossipy world of Castlebay and those in its thrall... Angela O'Hara, beautiful, isolated, a teacher trapped in the convent school, who risks everything to help Clare escape... Gerry Doyle, the town charmer who finds in Clare the woman he vows to have at any price... Caroline Nolan, the beautiful, rich outsider who comes to plunder...For Clare, that was before the wild freedom of Dublin, and love. And David.  Before fate drove them back to Castlebay, and the past...

Nos rêves de Castelbay

Sur la petite île grecque d'Aghia Ana, cinq voyageurs qui n'ont en commun que leur envie d'ailleurs se voient réunis autour du tragique accident qui secoue l'île. Chacun pose ses bagages, et vit au rythme du village endeuillé. Après la fuite, vient le temps des questions, des bilans, des ruptures et des amours naissantes. Avec finesse et grâce à un véritable art du récit, l'auteur de En dînant chez Quentin met en scène une galerie de personnages en proie au doute, exploitant avec subtilité leurs échecs et leurs espoirs.

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

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