Maeve Binchy was born in 1940, in Dalkey, a small village in Dublin, Ireland. To this day she draws on her experiences there when creating the rural villages so often found at the heart of her novels. Maeve Binchy is the author of novels and collections of short stories, which have been translated into many different languages and have been published worldwide.

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These four stories, set in the heart of Dublin's fashionable Southside, focus on the dilemmas facing ordinary people. There is - a society hostess who invites her husband's mistress to dinner, a country girl lost in the big city, a reformed drinker beset by temptations and a student grappling with the problem of an unplanned pregnancy
With her intimate grasp of human feeling and her uncanny ear for dialogue, Maeve Binchy lavishes sympathy and affection on all her characters, brave and foolish alike.








