Book Description
Tara Road - With each new book, Maeve Binchy
continues a remarkable progression of sales and audience
growth, reaching fans of all ages and backgrounds with her
matchless wit, warmth, and sheer storytelling magic. Tara
Road, her first full-length novel since The Glass Lake, again
shows her incomparable understanding of the human heart in
the tale of two women, one from Ireland, one from America,
who switch lives, and in doing so learn much about each
other, as well as much about themselves.
Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband,
Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was
happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was
leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. By a
chance phone call, Ria meets Marilyn, a woman from New
England unable to come to terms with her only son's death and
now separated from her husband. The two women exchange houses
for the summer with extraordinary consequences, each learning
that the other has a deep secret that can never be revealed.
Drawn into lifestyles vastly differing from their own, at
first each resents the news of how well the other is getting
on. Ria seems to have become quite a hostess, entertaining
half the neighborhood, which at first irritates the reserved
and withdrawn Marilyn, a woman who has always guarded her
privacy. Marilyn seems to have become bosom friends with
Ria's children, as well as with Colm, a handsome
restaurateur, whom Ria has begun to miss terribly. At the end
of the summer, the women at last meet face-to-face. Having
learned a great deal, about themselves and about each other,
they find that they have become, firmly and forever, good
friends.
A moving story rendered with the deft touch of a master
artisan, Tara Road is Maeve Binchy at her very best--utterly
beautiful, hauntingly unforgettable, entirely original, and
wholly enjoyable.
