Maeve Binchy

Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather have decided to create the best catering company in Dublin....

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....

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

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....

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

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....

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....

In a Greek taverna, high over the small village of Aghia Anna, four people meet for the first time....

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....

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

The town of Rossmore is a special place, full of character and charm. Nestled beside the Whitethorn Woods, the town has grown since the days when it was small and friendly....

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

Every Friday night the same seven Dublin workers meet to travel home in Tom Fitzgerald's lilac-coloured minibus....

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....

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate... senior cardiac specialist, has a new job to cope with - and now her ex-husband wants something from her....

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

High on the cliffs of the west coast of Ireland, overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean, is Stone House....

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