5/27/2023 0 Comments Tara road by maeve binchyShe was surrounded by friends, by her children, in this lovely home, and her husband was off … being a philandering Irish jerk. But, as the reader finds out through the pages, that good life was all in Ria’s head. She married the first man, Danny Lynch, whom she fell in love with, and thought she had a good life. See, it’s really just a portrait of a woman, Ria Lynch, and the life she led. Which leads me to believe this: the jacket flap writers didn’t know what to do with this one. And while there was a house swap, it didn’t come until late in the novel. The jacket flap posed this as a post-divorce/traumatic-incident/finding-oneself house-swap story. I knew nothing about it other than the author’s name. After my Northanger Abbey debacle, I was wandering the library looking for something light but good, and I settled on this. Earlier this year, the late author, Maeve Binchy, released A Week in Winter, and people came in to my bookstore to snap it up, raving about her last work. Because, honestly, much like a Jane Austen novel, the plot is really inconsequential to the enjoyment of this book. I think I’m going to start with the why on this one.
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