Maeve's Times

By Denise Ryan

Book Overview

Five decades of selected writings from the Irish Times by the beloved and best-selling author, filled with her hallmark humor, candor, and wisdom-a timeless gift to her legion of fans. Maeve Binchy once confessed: As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am obsessively interested in what some might consider the trivia of other people's lives. She was an accidental journalist, yet from the beginning, her writings reflected the warmth, wit, and keen human interest that readers would come to love in her fiction. From the royal wedding to boring airplane companions, Samuel Beckett to Margaret Thatcher, senior moments to life as a waitress, Maeve's Times gives us wonderful insight into a changing Ireland as it celebrates the work of one of our best-loved writers in all its diversity-revealing her characteristic directness, laugh-out-loud humor, and unswerving gaze into the true heart of a matter. "Binchy's wry, self-effacing style reminds one of a Celtic Nora Ephron. . . . She] throws a spotlight on strong, imperfect women confronting complicated challenges." --The Christian Science Monitor This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385353456
• ISBN13: 9780385353458
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.6"