Maeve Binchy

In the small Irish town of Knockglen, best friends Bernadette ('Benny') and Eve are inseparable. Benny is an adored only child, and Eve, a poor, birdlike orphan brought up by nuns....

Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, a place where nothing changes - until the day Kit's mother disappears and Kit is haunted by the memory of her mother, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming down her face....

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters are a handful, and Clara, a senior cardiac specialist, has a new job to cope with....

The Sheedy sisters had lived in Stone House for as long as anyone could remember. Set high on the cliffs on the west coast of Ireland, overlooking the windswept Atlantic ocean....

Ria and Marilyn have never met - they live thousands of miles apart, separated by the Atlantic Ocean....

Every table at Quentins Restaurant has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, betrayal and revenge....

A Few of the Girls is a glorious collection of the very best of her writing, full of the warmth, charm and humour that has always been an essential part of all of Maeve's writing....

New York Times best-selling author Maeve Binchy has a way of making everyday experiences extraordinary.....

A silver wedding means a family gathering - difficult occasions at the best of times....

The Italian evening class at Mountainview School is like hundreds of others starting up all over the city. But this class has its own special quality....

Maeve Binchy is back with a tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community....

As a child Elizabeth is sent from her war-torn, rather loveless home in London to stay with a big, boisterous family in a small town in Ireland....

This is the story of two very different children growing up in a small Irish seaside town in the '50s and '60s....

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....

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....

Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent (featured in Minding Frankie) is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in Maeve Binchy's wonderfully compelling tales....

In the summer of 1962, an American millionaire arrives in a small, sleepy Irish town with far-reaching consequences....

Everything is changing in Rossmore....

Dee loves her children very much, but now they are all grown up, shouldn't they leave home....

This Year It Will be Different brings us the magic and spirit of Christmas in 15 stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius....