Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book."
~Walter Sickers

putting into my spring cleaning #2 bookbox

From Publishers Weekly
Not without reason is Binchy (Evening Class; Circle of Friends) most popular for her novels, as this unimpressive collection of short stories linked by the theme of travel-and-learn indicates. Although the time is now and the place usually Dublin, the writing is dated, dependent on such romantic-comedy movie devices as mistaken identity, switched suitcases, confidante becoming lover, the stranger who upsets all the old balances, the surprise presence of Mum at the restaurant of the out-of-the-way hotel intended for a tryst. The most promising of the batch is the title story, a series of letters between a mother who left Ireland and her daughter, the young woman who has gone there to see the village her mother grew up in. The characters here have depth and secrets not immediately apparent. The conflicts between mother and daughter mirror the conflicts the mother has about her homeland. Unfortunately, the remaining 13 stories touch on formulaic generational and gender misunderstandings. The characters are established early, the predictable

Taking out of princess-peapod's Spring cleaning box #2

Not the best book of hers I have read.

Sending to a BC friend who moved recently, Enjoy!

Gift from another BCer! :)

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I really enjoyed this book. Maeve Binchy is one of my all time favorite authors.