A few of the girls stories

Friendship, love, and misplaced hope drive the characters who populate a new collection of Maeve Binchy stories.

Main Author: Binchy, Maeve, 1940-2012 (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.
Edition: First United States edition.
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Summary: Friendship, love, and misplaced hope drive the characters who populate a new collection of Maeve Binchy stories.
Item Description: Subtitle from cover.
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Orion Books, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd., London, in 2015"--Title page verso.
Physical Description: vi, 319 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781101947418 (hardcover)
1101947411 (hardcover)
Author Notes: Maeve Binchy was born in Dublin, Ireland on May 28, 1940. She received a B.A. from University College in Dublin in 1960. After teaching at a school for girls, she became a journalist, columnist and editor at the Irish Times. By 1979, she was writing plays, a successful television script, and several short story collections.

Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, was published in 1982. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 20 books including Silver Wedding, Scarlet Feather, Heart and Soul, Minding Frankie, and A Week in Winter. The Lilac Bus and Echoes were made into TV movies, while Circle of Friends, Tara Road and How About You were made into feature films. Her title Chestnut Street is a New York Times Best Seller. She died after a brief illness on July 30, 2012 at the age of 72.

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