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A Week in Winter

Maeve Binchy

Hardcover | Pages: 464 pages

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Original Title:	A Week in Winter
ISBN:	140911399X (ISBN13: 9781409113997)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Geraldine "Chicky" Starr, Walter Starr, Miss Queenie Sheedy, Mrs. Cassidy, Orla, Chicky's niece, Bridget O'Hara, Foxy Farrell, Nuala, Chicky's girlhood friend, Rigger, Father Johnson, Winnie, a nurse in Dublin, Teddy Hennessy, Lillian Hennessy, John "Cory" Salinas, Freda O'Donovan, Maria Rosa Salinas, Monica Salinas, Miss Nell Howe, Irene O'Connor, Igatious "Nasey", Charlie Wall, Ann Wall, Anders Almkvist, Eva O'Donovan, Mark Malone (A Week in Winter)
Setting:	Stoneybridge(Ireland)

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Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy. Helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the house) and Orla, her niece (a whiz at business), Chicky is finally ready to welcome the first guests to Stone House’s big warm kitchen, log fires, and understated elegant bedrooms. John, the American movie star, thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian are forced into taking a holiday together; Nicola and Henry, husband and wife, have been shaken by seeing too much death practicing medicine; Anders hates his father’s business, but has a real talent for music; Miss Nell Howe, a retired schoolteacher, criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyone’s relief; the Walls are disappointed to have won this second-prize holiday in a contest where first prize was Paris; and Freda, the librarian, is afraid of her own psychic visions. Sharing a week with this unlikely cast of characters is pure joy, full of Maeve’s trademark warmth and humor. Once again, she embraces us with her grand storytelling. This is the last book that Maeve Binchy wrote before her sudden death. As are all her stories, it is her trademark warmth, humor and the kind of characters that will make her books live on. It is a privilege to be able to share this book with readers.

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Title	:	A Week in Winter
Author	:	Maeve Binchy
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	October 11th 2012 by Orion
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. Romance. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit

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I started out really liking this book. I loved the premise of setting up a hotel in Ireland and found all the preparations exciting. The first half of the book largely focused on the life of the woman setting up the hotel, and it was enjoyable. However, the book became very boring once the hotel was established. During the second half of the book, each chapter focused on a new character or characters, and their story that brought them to the hotel, and a sort of redemption from the time spent in

Forget vampires, sado-masochism et al, the so-called 'in vogue' genres in the literature of today. Curling up with a Maeve Binchy novel is a bit like snuggling up on a cold winter's night with a big mug of hot chocolate. Like the chocolate, you never want the book to end, yet you cannot put it down until you do so. She gently pulls you into the plotline, introducing the characters one by one, each with their own agenda. The focal point in 'A Week in Winter' is Stone House, a newly-opened hotel,

Easy and comforting reading - it's not the best Binchy book as some of the stories are a little rushed but still very enjoyable.

I've always loved Maeve Binchy and am going to miss her a lot. She's my writer hero and two of my high moments as a writer were having one of my Irish trilogy books appear in a display with her in the Shannon airport duty free shop, and last summer appearing on the New York Times bestseller list with her. Even with her weaker books (and this one wasn't), she's a better storyteller than most writers out there. Which, along with the fact that she kept me totally engaged and turning the pages, is

A Week in Winter- Maeve Binchy's posthumous novel is achingly beautiful, so well written, a gift to any reader, and a sad goodbye to one of the world's most talented writers. Binchy has always held her readers gently in her grasp, telling them stories of people and places that capture our interest from the first few lines, and keep us fixated on her tales til the last page. I could not put this one down, and yet I dreaded finishing it, knowing there will be no more novels to follow. Binchy

I loved this unusual novel. Written more like a series of novellas than one long novel, this book deals with the different people who will eventually either work at Stone House or stay there for the inaugural week in the winter.This book was written with Ms Binchys usual style and grace. The story is a bit of a typical one for the author, as she had been known to do lovely things with words and writing about people going through hard times and seeing the hope at the end of the tunnel.The

Teresa wrote: "She was a great writer. Some of her books have been adapted for tv."Really, Teresa? Ill have to lookdidnt know that. Thanks.