Binchy, Maeve

In these powerful, poignent tales, Binchy once again reveals her unrivaled understanding of matters of the heart.

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.

In the Irish town of Shancarrig, the young people 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 dors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realizes that not everything in the placid village is what it seems.

Ella Brady, hoping to capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s through the end of the century by filming a documentary on the popular restaurant, Quentins, and its owners, Patrick and Brenda Brennan, begins to wonder if there are some stories that are just too precious to be told.

Story of the youthful dreams of eight children, now adults leading different lives in the small Irish village of Shancarrig.

Teacher Aidan Dunne, passed over for the principal's job, is instead offered a post as head of a new evening school where he somewhat assuages his dream of visiting Italy by offering classes in Italian and draws an assortment of students whose lives are all transformed by the vivacious instructor, Nora O'Donoghue.

A novel of a mother's secret and a daughter's courage, and their relationship that neither deceit nor death can destroy.

Chicky Starr, having transformed a decaying, Irish mansion into a bed and breakfast with the help of handyman Rigger and her niece, Orla, welcomes her first guests, who are all facing different challenges in life.