- Hardcover: 608 pages
- Publisher: Orion; First edition (28 Aug 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752814478
- ISBN-13: 978-0752814476
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 116,940 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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2 Woman - 1 Irish, 1 American - set up a home exchange business; their unlikely and touching friendship unveils secrets and changes lives.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A PLEASURE TO READ,
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This review is from: Tara Road (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.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not All It's Cracked Up To Be,
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This review is from: Tara Road (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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A stranger may learn much more about your life in a few weeks than you may know about yourself,
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This review is from: Tara Road (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.
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