NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A story of patients and staff, family, and friends who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old Ireland and the new. - "Good-hearted and] entertaining." --The Washington Post
Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. She has plenty on her plate already--two difficult adult daughters...
I loved this book. Maeve Binchey does a marvelous job telling a story and keeping the reader engaged. Her characters are rich and colorful. A thoroughly enjoyable read.
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I truly enjoyed this book. It has a lot of characters and quite a few from a previous book or two. While it is fiction - it totally incorporates modern day social problems such as racism, class, health and a lot of family issues. I always feel like I'm having a cup of tea with a friend whenever I'm reading Ms. Binchy. She is down to earth and we're so lucky to have her work at hand.
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Maeve Binchy is basically a writer of short stories. She can introduce a character, sketch out what he/she is like, and then fill in the lines quicker than any other author I can think of. She can create characters whom readers care about and concoct any number of interesting situations for them. In this book the main character is Dr. Clara Casey, a woman with two troublesome daughters and a dissolving marriage, who has...
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I'm a Binchy fan and this is storytelling at its best. Reading all her books has given me insight into my Irish parents background and all the quaint excpressions that the Irish use,,,like an iijit. I have never been to Dublin, but a visit this Spring seems in order after reading Binchy's latest.
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One of my favorite joys is to sit back with my coffee and read books...Maeve Binchy, is my favorite author and her books make my reading time so fulfilling. In her latest book, Heart and Soul, she returns to the style that made her one of the most comforting authors. Like all her books, Heart and Soul has quite a cast of characters...but the main character is the cardiac specialist at a Dublin clinic named Clara Casey. Clara...
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