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A week in winter / Maeve Binchy.

Binchy, Maeve, 1940-2012 (Author).

Summary:

"Maeve Binchy, "the grand story teller, "* returns with a cast of characters you will never forget when they all spend a winter week together on holiday at Stone House, a restful inn by the sea ... Stoneyville is a small town on the coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. When Chicky decides to take an old decaying mansion, Stone House, and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, the town thinks she is crazy. She is helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the place) and her niece Orla (a whiz at business). Finally the first week of paying guests arrive: John, the American movie star thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian, forced into taking a holiday together; Nuala and Henry, husband and wife, both doctors who have been shaken by seeing too much death; Anders, the Swedish boy, hates his father's business, but has a real talent for music; Miss Nell Howe, a retired school teacher, who criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyone's relief; the Walls who have entered in 200 contests (and won everything from a microwave oven to velvet curtains, including the week at Stone House); and Freda, the psychic who is afraid of her own visions. You will laugh and cry as you spend the week with this odd group who share their secrets and might even have some of their dreams come true." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780345805867
ISBN: 0345805860
ISBN: 9780307475503
ISBN: 0307475506
ISBN: 9780307273574
ISBN: 978030727357
Physical Description: 325 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Copyright: ♭b2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. "Originally published in Great Britain in slightly different form by Orion Books, London, in 2012"--Title page verso.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:	Eastern Copy gift of Brad A. Cecil; 2013.
Biographical or Historical Data:	Born Dalkey, County Dublin (modern-day Dún Laoghaire Rathdown), Ireland, May 28, 1940; died Dublin hospital, Ireland, July 30, 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeve_Binchy.