Maeve Binchy

Dr. Clara Casey, who has been offered the thankless job of establishing a new underfunded heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new Ireland, agrees to take it on for a year, despite pressures in her private life.

Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the serene waters of Lough Glass until she disappeared, leaving only a boat drifting upside down on the unfathomable lake that gave the town its name. Helen McMahon, a Dubliner, never belonged in Lough Glass, not the way her genial pharmacist-husband Martin belonged, or their daughter Kit. Now Kit is haunted by the memory of her mother, seen through a window, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming...

In a small Greek island village, local residents and a group of international travelers are brought together by sudden tragedy.

The chaotic events of World War II force Elizabeth White, a young English girl, to escape to Ireland, where she shares a friendship with Aisling O'Connor, with whom she endures years of change, joy, sorrow, betrayals, and an unbreakable bond.

The children, friends, and relatives of Desmond and Deirdre Doyle gather in a small London suburb to honor the couple on the occasion of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.

Collects the best of the author's essays from five decades of the "Irish Times" to reflect a changing culture as well as her observations on such topics as the royal wedding, waitressing, and boring airline companions.

It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents ... Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains ... except their own. It widened at Dublin, at the university...