With each new book, Maeve Binchy continues a remarkable progression of sales and audience growth, reaching fans of all ages and backgrounds with her matchless wit, warmth, and sheer storytelling magic. Tara Road, her first full-length novel since The Glass Lake, again shows her incomparable understanding of the human heart in the tale of two women, one from Ireland, one from America, who switch lives, and in doing so learn much about each other, as well as much about themselves.
Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. By a chance phone call, Ria meets Marilyn, a woman from New England unable to come to terms with her only son's death and now separated from her husband. The two women exchange houses for the summer with extraordinary consequences, each learning that the other has a deep secret that can never be revealed.
Drawn into lifestyles vastly differing from their own, at first each resents the news of how well the other is getting on. Ria seems to have become quite a hostess, entertaining half the neighborhood, which at first irritates the reserved and withdrawn Marilyn, a woman who has always guarded her privacy. Marilyn seems to have become bosom friends with Ria's children, as well as with Colm, a handsome restaurateur, whom Ria has begun to miss terribly. At the end of the summer, the women at last meet face-to-face. Having learned a great deal, about themselves and about each other, they find that they have become, firmly and forever, good friends.
A moving story rendered with the deft touch of a master artisan, Tara Road is Maeve Binchy at her very best--utterly beautiful, hauntingly unforgettable, entirely original, and wholly enjoyable.
The Washington Post
Reading one of Maeve Binchy's novels is like coming home.
USA Today Tara Road is good storytelling...Binchy's books are big, her boys are backsliders, her heroines are spirited.
Wall Street Journal
Engrossing...hard to put down...a saga of love, sex, money and intrigue.
The New York Times
A remarkably gifted writer.
Wall Street Journal
Engrossing...hard to put down...a saga of love, sex, money and intrigue.
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by ~*Rachel*~ Tara Road was an AMAZING book Maeve Binchy has captured the timeless struggles of modern mom and the selfishness of men and put it into an amazing book of hardship and change. This is one of my all time favorites!!
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by Betül
It makes you read it all the time till you finish.
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by Judy Harrington
This was my first book read by me by Maeve Binchy and I am anxiously awaiting the reading of many more. She is the most wonderful author and really draws one into the complex lives of her characters.
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by Rosamond Rudy
I loved Tara Road. Like all of Maeve Binchy's books , I read it every spare minute that I had and I was sorry to come to the end. I am anxious for Maeve Binchy's next book. She is a wonderful
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by Kae
Ms Binchy can do no wrong. All of her books are great. Unable to put this one down, & could have cried when it was done.
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Until now, I had never read a book that literally took me for the emotional ride of my life. I cried, I laughed and I walked away from the book, but it pulled me back into the tumultous lives of the people of Tara Road. In the end, two nights... Read More
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