The Return Journey, Maeve Binchy
The Return Journey, Maeve Binchy
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The Return Journey
Stories

Author: Maeve Binchy

Narrator: Fionnula Flanagan

Unabridged: 4 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2000

Synopsis

In this extraordinary collection of stories, New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy once again reveals her incomparable understanding of matters of the heart with powerfully compelling stories of love, loss, revelation, and reconciliation.

A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip. . . .
A man and a woman's mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can be. . . .
An insecure wife clings to the illusion of order, only to discover chaos at the hands of a house sitter who opens the wrong doors. . . .
A pair of star-crossed travelers take each other's bags, and then learn that when you unlock a stranger's suitcase, you enter a stranger's life.

In their company are many more, whose poignant, ironic, often humorous stories—unforgettable slices of life—make up The Return Journey, a spellbinding trip into the human heart.

About The Author

Maeve Binchy was born and educated in Dublin. She is the bestselling author of The Return Journey, Evening Class, This Year It Will Be Different, and The Glass Lakes. She has written two plays and a teleplay that won three awards at the Prague Film Festival. She has been writing for The Irish Times since 1969 and lives with her husband, writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell, in Dublin.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Suz on October 01, 2021

Am writing this years after reading. I just remember the travelling theme. Wholesome writing. Maeve discusses real life issues, but always in a mature and safe way. She catches the nuances of life whether they be young or old, rich or poor, worldly or not. She just writes in an easy way that I have......more

Goodreads review by Deacon Tom on January 22, 2022

Some lovely stories by one of my favorite writers. The characters are are not as strong as usual.......more

Goodreads review by Blondish And on August 20, 2019

I rarely read short stories, but for Maeve Binchy I will make an exception! These stories are mostly set in Dublin Ireland, like most of her books, but have unique characters and are completely independent of her Dublin series (Tara Road, Scarlet Feather, etc). Most of the tales are about 15 pages,......more

Goodreads review by Rebekah on January 04, 2010

I have read a number of Maeve Binchy stories, both novels and short stories in collections. This was the first collection I had read of just her work. At first I was confused not realizing that these were not one cohesive story. I like seeing how characters develop over a longer period, not that som......more

Quotes

"Maeve Binchy makes you laugh, cry and care.... Her characters throb with life."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"Maeve Binchy is a grand storyteller in the finest Irish tradition--she writes from the heart."
--The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

"Maeve Binchy is a master storyteller."
--The New York Times

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