Maeve Binchy

Broschiertes Buch

The Lilac Bus

The heart-warming read from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle

Beschreibung

The lilac-coloured minibus belongs to Tom Fitzgerald. Each Friday night it is a meeting place for the same seven people who use it to travel home from Dublin to spend the weekend in Rathdoon. This book conjures up a cast of human characters with real joys and real sadnesses, portrayed with compassion and warmth.

Autor

Maeve Binchy was born in Dublin, and went to school at the Holy Child Convent in Killiney. She took a history degree at UCD and taught in various girls' schools, writing travel articles in the long summer holidays. In 1969 she joined the Irish Times and for many years she was based in London writing humorous columns from all over the world. She is the author of five collections of short stories as well as twelve novels including Circle of Friends, The Copper Beech, Tara Road, Evening Class and The Glass Lake. Maeve Binchy died on 30 July 2012. She is survived by her husband, the writer Gordon Snell.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arrow Books / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 763913
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 132mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 180g
• ISBN-13: 9780099498643
• ISBN-10: 0099498642
• Artikelnr.: 22397172

Rezensionen

Maeve Binchy has a gimlet eye for the seething cauldron of emotions which lies beneath the surface of everyday life Irish Independent