A week in winter (by Maeve Binchy)

(Amazon UK link) I have thoroughly enjoyed re-reading the late Maeve Binchy’s novels over the past eighteen months or so. And in the past few days I have re-read her last novel, ‘A week in winter’, which I first read in 2015. I had, unsurprisingly, forgotten everything about it.
It’s written, as so many of this author’s books were, as a series of interconnected short stories, each one featuring a different character.  The first person we meet is a young woman known to all as Chicky. She grew up on...