Review: A very sweet story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 18, 2011
I've always loved Maeve Binchy's books and this short story is no different.  Short stories are just that...short.  They aren't novels or novellas, and Binchy succeeded in this one with starting out with a problem and finding a way to solve it and wrapping it up within her story.Brian Merriman has gone from one thing to the other in life. Dairy cattle farming, growing flax and corn, and finally he became a mathematics teacher.  All of these jobs were in different states in the American midwest, and their two girls, instead of having them constantly changing schools, were put into boarding school.  Kathy, the wife, needed to have a job that she could do anywhere, so she cooks and bakes for people and delivers her goods to people's homes.  But Kathy wants a vacation.  She and Brian have never taken a vacation.Brian is a very depressed man, and how to get him out of his depression, much less out of the house is Kathy's dilemma.  There is a lot of humor in this story as well as some tender moments.Nothing has been given away, so the story still awaits.  I found it to be an excellent story from an excellent writer.  Her latest book is on my TBR list.