Maeve Binchy

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

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....

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.... 

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....

Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. By a chance phone call, Ria meets Marilyn....

Lough Glass is at the heart and soul of the namesake town clinging to its shore. They say that if you go out on St. Agnes' Eve...

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

The Mountainview School in working-class Dublin boasts a brightly festooned room brimming...

A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip...A man and a woman's mutual...

Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous O'Connors in Kilgarret, Ireland. It is the beginning of an unshakeable bond....

The stories are all filled with the signature warmth and humor that have always been an essential part of Maeve's appeal....

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....

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....

In the summer of 1962, an American millionaire arrives in a small, sleepy Irish town with far-reaching consequences....

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

The Italian evening class at Mountainview School is like hundreds of others starting up all over the city. But this class has its own special quality....

A delectable collection of 22 short stories centred around people travelling on the London Underground....

A society hostess entertains her husband's mistress to dinner; a country girl savours the delights of city life; a student faces the dilemma of unmarried pregnancy....

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