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AuthorMaeve Binchy
NarratorKate Binchy
Duration12h 2m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels
PublishersChivers, Orion
VersionUnabridged
Every table at Quentins Restaurant has a story to tell: tales of love, betrayal and revenge. The staff who come and go have stories of their own, and the restaurant itself has had times when it looked fair for success and others when it seemed doomed to failure. Ella Brady wants to make a documentary about the renowned Dublin restaurant that has captured the spirit of a generation, but, as she is forced to confront the most devastating dilemma in her own life, Ella wonders if some stories are too sacred to be told...
Author: Maeve Binchy
Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 12h 30m
'The Irish do love telling stories, and we are suspicious of people who don't have long, complicated conversations. There used to be a rule in etiquette books that you should invite four talkers and four listeners to a dinner party. That doesn't work in Ireland, because nobody knows four listeners' Maeve Binchy. Maeve Binchy's bestselling novels n...
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 23h 18m
An account of four fateful years in the life of a small Irish town, and in particular of the family who run the local pub. The novel features interlocking stories of loves lost and won, ambitions nurtured and secrets betrayed.
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 12h 30m
Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in Maeve Binchy's wonderfully compelling tales: Bucket Maguire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to protect his son. Nessa Byrne, whose aunt comes to visit from America for six weeks every summer and turns the...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 11h 54m
Maeve's Binchy's much-loved Irish Times writings spanned five decades. She was an accidental journalist whose work first appeared after her father sent in colourful accounts he had received from her travels. From the beginning, her writings reflected the warmth, wit and keen human interest that readers would come to love in her fiction. This timele...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Terry Donnelly
Duration 9h 27m
Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to escape, meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany and England, they have each left their homes and their old lives, when a shocking tragedy throws them unexpectedly together. Fiona is a young nurse, trying to make her family understand her...
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 1h 40m
Based on the author's own experience as a hip replacement patient, Maeve Binchy provides funny insider advice about coping with the ordeals of surgery, a hospital stay, and at-home convalescence. Highlights include: ten little jobs you can give to anyone who innocently asks 'how can I help?'; ways to cope with all the indignities of baring your bod...
View BookThe Garden Party and Other Stories
Author: Maeve Binchy
Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Various
Duration 57m
A collection of short stories from the Archives read for Radio 4, by bestselling author Maeve Binchy. Stories included are: The Garden Party read by Niamh Cusack - Helen looked down at Mrs Kennedy's garden. It was cheerfully coloured yet ordered like Mrs Kennedy. But first impressions are not always reliable. The Special Sale read by Dervla Kirwan...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Catherine Walker
Duration 18h 30m
Friends since college, Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather plan to open a catering company in Dublin, but not everyone is supportive - such as a mother-in-law, an overworked husband, a distracted girlfriend and terrible twins. Tom and Cathy turn increasingly to each other for support.
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 11h 15m
A novel which follows the fortunes of eight children who carve their names on the copper beech behind the local school and looks at the drama behind the apparently quiet life of a small Irish community.
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 18h 12m
Ria Lynch and Marilyn Vine have never met. Ria lives in a big ramshackle house in Tara Road, Dublin, which is filled with family and friends, while Marilyn lives in New England, absorbed in her career. A chance phone call brings them together and they decide to exchange homes. So a magical summer begins, full of discovery, unexpected friendships an...
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