Chestnut Street
By: Maeve Binchy
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780385351850; 9780385351867; 9780804170086
Subjects: Neighbors; Families; Contemporary Women; Fathers and sons; Family life; Literary; Family Life; Mothers and daughters; Humorous fiction; Gossip; FICTION; Domestic fiction; Pen pals; City and town life; Fiction
Description: "While she was writing columns for The Irish Times and her best-selling novels, Maeve Binchy also had in mind to write a book that revolved around one street with many characters coming and going. Every once in a while, she would write about one these people. She would then put it in a drawer. "For the future," she would say. The future is now. Just around the corner from St. Jarlath's Crescent (which readers will recognize from Minding Frankie) is Chestnut Street, where neighbors come and go. Behind their closed doors we encounter very different people with different life circumstances, occupations, and sensibilities. Written with the humor and understanding that are earmarks of Maeve Binchy's work, it is a pleasure to be part of this world with all of its joys and sorrows, to get to know the good and the bad, and ultimately to have our hearts warmed by her storytelling"--
Notes: "This is Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Dolly's mother; title: It's only a day; title: Fay's new uncle; title: A problem of my own; title: All that matters; title: Joyce and the blind date; title: Liberty green; title: The cure for sleepnessness; title: Miss ranger's reward; title: Decision in Dublin; title: The wrong caption; title: Star Sullivan; title: Taxi men are invisible; title: A card for Father's Day; title: The gift of dignity; title: The investment; title: The leap of faith; title: Lilian's hair; title: Flowers from Grace; title: The builders; title: Bucket Maguire; title: The older man; title: Philip and the flower arrangers; title: Resonable access; title: By the time we get to Clifden; title: The women who righted wrongs; title: The sighting; title: The lottery of the birds; title: Madame Magic; title: Say nothing; title: Eager to please; title: Seeing things clearly; title: Fair exchange; title: The window box; title: Finn's future; title: One night a year.