false <![CDATA[Tara Road]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518207m/5196.jpg 5196 58 Ria Lynch and Marilyn Vine have never met. Their lives have almost nothing in common. Ria lives in a big ramshackle house in Tara Road, Dublin, which is filled day and night with the family and friends on whom she depends. Marilyn lives in a college town in Connecticut, New England, absorbed in her career, an independent and private woman who is very much her own person. Two more unlikely friends would be hard to find. Yet a chance phone call brings them together and they decide to exchange homes for the summer. Ria goes to America in the hope that the change will give her space and courage to sort out the huge crisis in her life that is threatening to destroy her. Marilyn goes to Ireland to recover in peace and quiet from the tragedy which she keeps secret from the world, little realising that Tara Road will prove to be the least quiet place on earth. They borrow each other's houses, and during the course of that magical summer they find themselves borrowing something of each other's lives, until a story which began with loss and suffering grows into a story of discovery, unexpected friendship and new hope. By the time Ria and Marilyn eventually meet, they find that they have altered the course of each other's lives for ever. 2485770 1991 Tara Road total:7301|5:1542|4:2719|3:2363|2:554|1:123| 7301 26906 8676 519 3 3 false true Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sun Oct 21 09:26:10 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 09:32:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 2 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Mon Apr 09 06:49:13 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 09 07:00:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Fri Aug 31 08:33:05 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 08:36:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Mar 04 19:29:41 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 22 12:48:36 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 13 08:06:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 06 14:57:10 -0700 2009
Maria (Ria) is a very unselfish woman living in Ireland on Tera Road. Her life fell into her hands by the luck of he...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Wed Aug 01 04:35:37 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 04:40:01 -0700 2007 Binchy wrote the character so well.
And though I already forgot -maybe Danny- the name of the good looking guy who was not a good husband at the end, I still remember how beautifully Binchy wrote the changing in his character.
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I was instantly sucked in to the characters' complex r...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 31 14:46:53 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 31 15:14:21 -0700 2007 I especially like tha author's style of writing and creative mind. Everything description was so colorful and vivid in my mind almost like watching a movie :) It is more of ...more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 08:13:18 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 14:43:57 -0700 2008 I am so glad I stopped & couldn't care less wha...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 13:13:22 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 01 00:56:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sat Jul 05 05:06:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 05:22:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 20:09:09 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 13:46:27 -0700 2009
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Genre: Romance

This was my first Maeve Binchy book and I moderately enjoyed it. The setting was Dublin, Ireland, which was beautifully described. Ria and her husband fall in love with the house of their dreams. Miraculously they are ab...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1999 Fri Nov 28 19:46:32 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 19:56:11 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 13:04:43 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 13:15:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 04 05:15:21 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 19:21:31 -0700 2009
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