Kate Binchy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Each Friday, Tom Fitzgerald drives the same people home from Dublin to spend the weekend in Rathdoon. Nancy, Dee, Kev and Celia - each have their own secret story, unknown to their fellow passengers. And of course Tom himself has his own reasons for returning home so regularly ... Once again, Maeve Binchy has conjured up a cast of very human characters with real joys and real sorrows, portrayed with her trademark wit, compassion and warmth.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Here is a great gift of wisdom and humour for anyone coping with actual aches and pains. Based on the author's own experience as a hip-replacement patient, she provides funny insider advice about coping with the ordeals of surgery, a hospital stay and at-home convalescence. This gem of an audiobook includes: Five things you can say to annoy the patient in the next bed How to put on elastic stockings Six ways to make non-alcoholic drinks bearable How...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
An old copper beech overlooks a school, and witnesses all the hopes and loves, dreams and ambitions of the children who grew up there ... By the school house at Shancarrig stands a copper beech, its bark scarred with the names and dreams of the pupils who have grown up under its branches. Under Junior Assistant Mistress Maddy Ross's careful gaze the children play, but out of school Maddy's gaze lingers where it shouldn't. Maura Brennan, a bundle of...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Baby Frankie is born into an unusual family. Her mother is desperate to find someone to take care of her child and she doesn't have much time. Noel doesn't seem to be the most promising of fathers but despite everything, he could well be Frankie's best hope. As for Lisa, she is prepared to give up everything for the man she loves; surely he's going to love her back? And Moira is having none of it. She knows what's right, and has the power to change...
5) Tara road
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Ria and Marilyn have never met - they live thousands of miles apart, separated by the Atlantic Ocean: one in a big, warm, Victorian house in Tara Road, Dublin, the other in a modern, open-plan house in New England. Two more unlikely friends would be hard to find: Ria's life revolves around her family and friends, while Marilyn's reserve is born of grief. But when each needs a place to escape to, a house exchange seems the ideal solution. Along with...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern, four lovely children, and such wonderful dreams. But all that changes one fateful summer when American millionaire Patrick O?Neill comes to town with his irresistible charm and money to burn. As love and hate vie for a town?s quiet heart, old traditions begin to crumble away. Patrick O?Neill means to build the grand hotel of his dreams, with its promise of wealth...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Desmond and Deirdre Doyle will have been married for 25 years in October. It falls to the Doyles' eldest daughter, Anna, to decide how best to commemorate her parents' Silver Wedding. No use asking her sister Helen, living in her London convent, or her brother Brendan, who has chosen another form of exile on a bleak farm in the West of Ireland. But it is unthinkable not to have a party, even though for the Doyles, family occasions are more difficult...