Tara Road

With a new introduction by Lorraine Kelly, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE ISLAND SWIMMER 'This is Binchy at her best' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A brilliant storyteller' GRAHAM NORTON Ria and Marilyn have never met, but they're about to switch lives for the summer... Ria Lynch lives in a big, warm, Victorian house in Tara Road, Dublin, where her life revolves around family and friends. Marilyn Vine lives thousands of miles away in a quiet, modern house in New England. After a terrible loss, she has closed herself off from the world. Two more unlikely friends would be hard to find, but when each needs a place to escape to, a house exchange seems the ideal solution. Along with the borrowed houses come neighbours and friends, gossip and speculation, and Ria and Marilyn soon realise that swapping lives won't be the peaceful escape they'd been hoping for ... Though it might turn out to be exactly the change they both needed. *AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK* ' ????? 'I would recommend this book to anyone who is a keen observer of life, to anyone who has been through tough times and to anyone who loves to get caught up in a world of complex families, friendships, love affairs, business deals and spontaneous life changing decisions. I have never read Maeve Binchy before but I will now seek out her other novels!' ????? '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.' ????? 'One of my all time favourite books. You will laugh and you will cry.' ????? 'Flawless writing, totally life like and believable characters with their own set of struggles, aspirations, dreams and desires... She is one heck of a writer.' ????? 'Such a great storyteller with colorful characters that you just fall in love with and others that you despise. This is a wonderful story of family and friends, love and betrayal. Over six hundred pages and it still ended too soon.' ????? 'I love all of Maeve Binchy's books, in Tara Road she creates a world of complex characters that you can believe in and care about.'