Description: Binchy is back with a tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community.
Review Quotes:
"Joyful, quintessential Binchy." --O, The Oprah Magazine
"All across America, Maeve Binchy fans will be kicking off their shoes, making a nice cup of tea, and curling up on the couch as they re-enter Binchy's cozy world." --The Seattle Times "Binchy's worldview is a large, benevolent one, and the reader is happier for it. . . . Bless her big Irish heart." --Minneapolis Star Tribune "One of Binchy's best works. She harmoniously handles a diverse group of characters, the good deeds that characterize life in Ireland are believable, and the ending is sweet." --Newark Star-Ledger "A comforting experience. . . . Warmhearted." --The Denver Post"In Minding Frankie Binchy proves again why she's the master of the intelligent comfort novel." --The Plain Dealer
"Maeve Binchy has done it again [with] yet another warm tale of individual growth and human community, [in which] she assembles a large cast of characters and deploys them with her characteristic playfulness . . . Binchy specializes in exploring human foibles without spelling them out in tiresome detail . . . There's a good chance that many readers, like this one, will consider Minding Frankie one of Binchy's best novels yet." --BookPage
"Solid, reliable, and comforting in its familiarity, delivering to Binchy fans what they have come to expect from her novels. . . . A reminder of the author's savvy ability to deliver what her loyal following has come to expect." --The Irish Times
"Absorbing. . . . Teems with colorful characters whose concerns and connections are depicted with heart and humor. . . . New readers of Binchy will succumb to the appeal of the heartwarming tradition longtime fans love to love." --The Free-Lance Star (Fredericksburg, VA) "All across America, Maeve Binchy fans will be kicking off their shoes, making a nice cup of tea, and curling up on the couch as they re-enter Binchy's cozy world. The Irish author returns here to a charming Dublin milieu of favorite characters from past novels, with some important new ones." --The Seattle Times
Acclaim for Maeve Binchy:
"A remarkably gifted writer and a wonderful student of human nature." --The New York Times Book Review
"A modern-day women's writer in the Jane Austen sense." --Standard-Times (New Bedford, MA) "Binchy makes you laugh, cry, and care. Her warmth and sympathy render the daily struggles of ordinary people heroic and turn storytelling into art." --The San Francisco Chronicle
"An author of exceptional grace [with] a wickedly subtle sense of humor and a great deal of kindness." --The Boston Globe
"Maeve Binchy is a benevolent god of a novelist. . . . She can channel Irish voices with the best of them, and each of these voices has its own twisting story to tell. . . . often with verve and humor." --The Columbus Dispatch
"Binchy is a grand storyteller in the finest Irish tradition. [She] has a true gift of creating characters we either know or wish we knew. . . . A perfect escape." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Only a curmudgeon could resist this master of cheerful, read-by-fire comfort." --Kirkus Reviews
"Reading one of Maeve Binchy's novels is like coming home." --The Washington Post