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| Original Title: | A Week in Winter |
| ISBN: | 140911399X (ISBN13: 9781409113997) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Geraldine "Chicky" Starr, Walter Starr, Miss Queenie Sheedy, Mrs. Cassidy, Orla, Chicky's niece, Bridget O'Hara, Foxy Farrell, Nuala, Chicky's girlhood friend, Rigger, Father Johnson, Winnie, a nurse in Dublin, Teddy Hennessy, Lillian Hennessy, John "Cory" Salinas, Freda O'Donovan, Maria Rosa Salinas, Monica Salinas, Miss Nell Howe, Irene O'Connor, Igatious "Nasey", Charlie Wall, Ann Wall, Anders Almkvist, Eva O'Donovan, Mark Malone (A Week in Winter) |
| Setting: | Stoneybridge(Ireland) |
Maeve Binchy
Hardcover | Pages: 464 pages Rating: 3.82 | 41894 Users | 5315 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Week in Winter |
| Author | : | Maeve Binchy |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 464 pages |
| Published | : | October 11th 2012 by Orion |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. Romance. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit |
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Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy. Helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the house) and Orla, her niece (a whiz at business), Chicky is finally ready to welcome the first guests to Stone House’s big warm kitchen, log fires, and understated elegant bedrooms. John, the American movie star, thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian are forced into taking a holiday together; Nicola and Henry, husband and wife, have been shaken by seeing too much death practicing medicine; Anders hates his father’s business, but has a real talent for music; Miss Nell Howe, a retired schoolteacher, criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyone’s relief; the Walls are disappointed to have won this second-prize holiday in a contest where first prize was Paris; and Freda, the librarian, is afraid of her own psychic visions. Sharing a week with this unlikely cast of characters is pure joy, full of Maeve’s trademark warmth and humor. Once again, she embraces us with her grand storytelling. This is the last book that Maeve Binchy wrote before her sudden death. As are all her stories, it is her trademark warmth, humor and the kind of characters that will make her books live on. It is a privilege to be able to share this book with readers.Rating About Books A Week in Winter
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Made Me Want to Spend a Week at Stone HouseChicky falls in love with Walter. He convinces her to leave Stoneybridge in Ireland and come to New York with him, promising that they will always be together. Forever turns out to be a couple of months. Chicky is left alone in New York with no friends and no job. Luckily she finds work at Mrs. Cassiday's boarding house. Chicky doesn't want to go home and confess what a mess her life turned out to be, but Mrs. Cassiday finally convinces her and to her
A Week in Winter was the last book written by Maeve Binchy before her death. Knowing that it was the last Maeve Binchy book made me a little melancholy before I even started reading, and a book set on the rocky and stormy Atlantic coast of Ireland will have plenty of melancholy already! I love books set in Ireland, and while this one offered no surprises to fans of Maeve Binchy, it transported me to Stone House, an inn opened by Chicky Starr with the help of Riggy (a troubled young man who needs
A Week in Winter- Maeve Binchy's posthumous novel is achingly beautiful, so well written, a gift to any reader, and a sad goodbye to one of the world's most talented writers. Binchy has always held her readers gently in her grasp, telling them stories of people and places that capture our interest from the first few lines, and keep us fixated on her tales til the last page. I could not put this one down, and yet I dreaded finishing it, knowing there will be no more novels to follow. Binchy
Easy and comforting reading - it's not the best Binchy book as some of the stories are a little rushed but still very enjoyable.
I can't believe there's a new novel by Maeve Binchy. I was just about to start re-reading her older books. I look forward to it.
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