2 Woman - 1 Irish, 1 American - set up a home exchange business; their unlikely and touching friendship unveils secrets and changes lives.
Tara Road
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One assumes that Maeve Binchy's fiction--always on the bestseller list--is sold mainly to women: the broader canvas of politics, business and legal matters don't seem to engage her interest. She's at her best in the intimate minutiae of domestic life--hopes and dreams, matters of the heart--and she's well served by her cousin Kate, who narrates her audio books with immense skill and conviction. Tara Road is in Dublin, where Ria has created an exquisite home for her adored husband Danny and her two children. Her kitchen is a warm, convivial meeting place for family and friends, but Danny seems too busy to enjoy it. To coax him back into the family circle, Ria suggests they have another baby, whereupon he confesses that he's in love with a teenage girl whom he's made pregnant, and with whom he intends to live. Realising that she's been living in a fool's paradise, Ria arranges a house exchange with a New Englander whose marriage is also on the rocks: a month in someone else's life should free them both from their misery. But the reality is more complicated, because the women have not been entirely open with each other. Skeletons emerge from cupboards, and while some characters lose out, others rise like phoenixes from the ashes of their former lives. Welcome to Binchy's variegated world. --Betty Tadman
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Two women - one Irish, one American - exchange homes for the summer. The film tie-in edition of the No.1 bestselling novel.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If I want to read a lovely warm, affectionate family book I usually pick up a Maeve Binchy. Tara Road, I think, is one of her best books. It's got love, friendship and passion and on the flipside has cheating husbands, devious best friends and mistresses galore. There is more than one story going on here, the main one is Ria and Danny Lynch and these two are followed throughout their lives in each chapter. But there are so many sub-stories which add to the depth of the main story and keeps the interest up. Ria's mother, sister, best friend, Danny's business partner, not to mention the local restaurateur all have their own stories intertwining. The book then introduces Marilyn in America who has her own problems and on the spur of the moment both Marilyn and Ria decide to do a house swap. This part of the book is very interesting in that it shows up the warm friendly qualities of Ria and the lack of them in Marilyn. Overall this is a very enjoyable read.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
I read the book and fairly enjoyed it but it could've been written in half the pages. Ria, the main character, needed a real good shaking, it was pretty obvious what was going to happen nearly from the beginning..... Although the book is centered around a house-swap - don't believe it, only the last third or so of the book deals with this. The first two-thirds deals with Ria's life from her first job onwards. Sorry all you Binchy fans but she just didn't really do it for me.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A stranger may learn much more about your life in a few weeks than you may know about yourself
11 Sep 2009
By Cem Tanova
Format:Paperback
The story of two women when a home swap gives them the space that they need in order to come to grips with what has been going on with their lives and what they could do about it.
Following events from different characters' perspectives gives the reader surprising and fresh insights. The different characters' perspectives allows the reader to put the pieces of the puzzle together and the completed puzzles give the reader new understandings of what has been going on in the lives of these very real characters.
There are many incidents in the book that lead the reader to wonder what they would have done under similar circumstances.
Swapping homes provides such a great context for the characters of the book to put themselves to test. It also gives them the great opportunity to "not be judged by their past" which they really cannot do much about but with their current actions which they are free to chose.
Following events from different characters' perspectives gives the reader surprising and fresh insights. The different characters' perspectives allows the reader to put the pieces of the puzzle together and the completed puzzles give the reader new understandings of what has been going on in the lives of these very real characters.
There are many incidents in the book that lead the reader to wonder what they would have done under similar circumstances.
Swapping homes provides such a great context for the characters of the book to put themselves to test. It also gives them the great opportunity to "not be judged by their past" which they really cannot do much about but with their current actions which they are free to chose.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Preferred the film
It was my mistake to see the film first and then read the book. I found the film more enjoyable (which is unusual, usually the books are far better than the film version). Read more
Published 2 months ago by Naj
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Another superb read by the wonderful Maeve Binchy
Fantastic story and beautifully written. Didn't want to put this book down! Looking forward to the next title written by Maeve Binchy.
Published 3 months ago by Sarah Walden
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Tara Road
I was'nt till I started reading this book that I realised I'd read it before, but with this author that does'nt really matter as its still worth reading again and again
Published 4 months ago by Snoopy
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Tara Road
The content was very humdrum. One of those family stories, very predictable and boring. That's the first and last Maeve Binchy I will read
Published 7 months ago by C. Snell
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Tara Road
Sorry but I did not enjoy this book as much as any other Maeve Binchy books. I was really disppointed as the book never seemed to get going, in my opinion. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Paula
4.0 out of 5 stars
A simple piece of entertaining storytelling
This is no great shakes from a literary point of view, Binchy has a very limited vocabulary, I lost count of how many things were 'huge' and she has an irritating habit of ending... Read more
Published 21 months ago by smartesthorse
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A joy to read
I loved reading this book and its associated titles Scarlet Feather & Quentins. Some characters appear in all three books and this gives a sense of community and reality to the... Read more
Published on 14 April 2011 by Chrissie
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Enjoyable
This was a pretty long story with a lot of secondary Characters but it is a fast paced story and the characters are developed really well, I really enjoyed this, a must for Binchy... Read more
Published on 6 May 2010 by L Murphy
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A beautiful account of surviving life
When you need it most, someone or something will come along and help you on your way through the trials everyone faces in life. Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2010 by Marie Powell
1.0 out of 5 stars
Sadly, it's just a narrative, about characters with no depth to them
OK, it's an interesting story - though to me it was rather predictable. But honestly, it's no more than a narrative! This happened, that happened. Yawn. Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2009 by The man from Marazion
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