FICTION
Released: March 1, 1997
"A Binchy shoo-in. (First serial to Good Housekeeping; Literary Guild main selection; TV satellite tour)"
Binchy (The Copper Beech, 1992, etc.) once again nets a flock of middle- and lower-middle worriers, loners, and groaners, all brooding on their peculiar miseries, until an updraft of love or happy coincidences sets them free.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 1996
"In all, an appropriate gift for the casual reader—a bit of sentimentality and a touch of romance, along with humor and hopeful turns to treat those with cases of the holiday blues. (Literary Guild featured alternate selection)"
A collection of Christmas-centered feel-good tales about love and family snarls in the season of comfort and joy.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 21, 1995
"Top-heavy with coincidence, improbables, and sentiment. (Author tour)"
Binchy (The Copper Beach, 1992, etc.) once again chronicles friends and neighbors in village and town, but here she elongates her tale into a 592-page taffy pull.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 2, 1992
"There are a few bright and snappy spots—but, in general, it's all heartwarming to the swelter point. (Book-of-the-Month Dual Selection for November)"
Another collection of related tales (as in this popular Irish author's The Lilac Bus, 1991) dealing with a varied clutch of people and their several life crises.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 7, 1991
"A big plate of mixed appetizers for Binchy fans, some of them nicely concentrated character studies, others predictable and flat."
From Binchy, that well-beloved chronicler of things Irish (as in Circle of Friends and Firefly Summer), eight thematically connected stories, plus four thrown in presumably for good measure.
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