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  • The Lilac Bus

  • By: Maeve Binchy
  • Narrated by: Kate Binchy
  • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (61 ratings)

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The Lilac Bus

By: Maeve Binchy
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Summary

Every Friday night the same seven Dublin workers meet to travel home in Tom Fitzgerald's lilac-coloured minibus. Each of them needs to return regularly to Rathdoon: Nancy Morris, a real 'Miss Mouse', is known for her meanness and has to escape her flatmate's carping; Dee Burke is engrossed in her affair; Kev Kennedy has a side to his character hidden even from his family; Celis Ryan has to face her mother making a drunken exhibition of herself - and Tom has his reasons.

"Touching, gossipy and as warming as a feather bed." (Sunday Telegraph)
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Wonderful as always

If only Kate binchy could narrate a lot more audio books she is brilliant
What a loss Maeve Binchy is to modern fiction too

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Another great book

Loved this book. So many different characters . So many different lives and secrets. Amazing writer

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Good start

Enjoyed this but it was over too soon. Just felt I was getting to know the characters with so much left in the air. Will look for a sequel.

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Love Maeve forever

Have listened to the bus so many times. The web of everyone is magical
The best of Maeve’s. ,

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