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by Maeve Binchy (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 502 pages
  • Publisher: Orion; First Edition edition (1 Jan 1998)
  • ISBN-10: 0385333951
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385333955
  • ASIN: B0006DIRH4
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A PLEASURE TO READ, 10 Nov 2006
By A. Rose (Devon & Menorca) - See all my reviews
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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.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars SIMPLY OUTSTANDING!, 9 Nov 2000
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This review is from: Tara Road (Paperback)
Reading "Tara Road" has been a gratifying experiance. This was a fast moving story, which intensified as the plot advaanced. Every character throbbed with life. This book is certainly a class apart. Maeve Binchy has written yet another flawless masterpiece. I could easily associate every character in this novel, to somebody in the real world. The book potrayed every class of society. Many major issues were dramatically yet effectively conveyed in the plot. The book showed the degree of deceit, disrespect and disloyalty that can take place in a family. Maeve Binchy put up a clever facade and let the reader believe that nothing could go wrong. One would get the impression of a perfect family and faithful friends. Everything was shown to be logical and unpretentious. The real truth was diametrically different. As the plot advanced, shock was replaced by suspence. Several important lessons can be learnt about the real world and the people in it. A must read for feminists. This book portrays women to be strong pillars of strength, benevolence, support, love and power. The simple narrative style engaged me. Maeve Binchy dealt in both explication as well as implication. Maeve binchy cleverly manipulated emotions to create sympathy for several characters in the play. Subtle and simple, yet deeply engrossing.
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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, 11 Sep 2009
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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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