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A Week in Winter

Maeve Binchy

Hardcover | Pages: 464 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 41894 Users | 5315 Reviews

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Original Title:	A Week in Winter
ISBN:	140911399X (ISBN13: 9781409113997)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Geraldine "Chicky" Starr, Walter Starr, Miss Queenie Sheedy, Mrs. Cassidy, Orla, Chicky's niece, Bridget O'Hara, Foxy Farrell, Nuala, Chicky's girlhood friend, Rigger, Father Johnson, Winnie, a nurse in Dublin, Teddy Hennessy, Lillian Hennessy, John "Cory" Salinas, Freda O'Donovan, Maria Rosa Salinas, Monica Salinas, Miss Nell Howe, Irene O'Connor, Igatious "Nasey", Charlie Wall, Ann Wall, Anders Almkvist, Eva O'Donovan, Mark Malone (A Week in Winter)
Setting:	Stoneybridge(Ireland)

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Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy. Helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the house) and Orla, her niece (a whiz at business), Chicky is finally ready to welcome the first guests to Stone House’s big warm kitchen, log fires, and understated elegant bedrooms. John, the American movie star, thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian are forced into taking a holiday together; Nicola and Henry, husband and wife, have been shaken by seeing too much death practicing medicine; Anders hates his father’s business, but has a real talent for music; Miss Nell Howe, a retired schoolteacher, criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyone’s relief; the Walls are disappointed to have won this second-prize holiday in a contest where first prize was Paris; and Freda, the librarian, is afraid of her own psychic visions.

Sharing a week with this unlikely cast of characters is pure joy, full of Maeve’s trademark warmth and humor. Once again, she embraces us with her grand storytelling.

This is the last book that Maeve Binchy wrote before her sudden death. As are all her stories, it is her trademark warmth, humor and the kind of characters that will make her books live on. It is a privilege to be able to share this book with readers.

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Title	:	A Week in Winter
Author	:	Maeve Binchy
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	October 11th 2012 by Orion
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. Romance. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit

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Ugh. This book served as a reminder why I stopped reading Maeve Binchy books. This book is really a collection of short stories - each chapter is about a different person or persons, all "connected" by their one week vacation in a historic home on the cliffs of the atlantic ocean in Ireland - only they're not really "connected" at all. There is no effort here to develop the characters - you don't feel anything for any of these people. The connections are merely references to one another

Maeve Binchy's final novel, A Week in Winter, was the perfect book for St. Patrick's Day weekend. But, it's sad to read such a beautiful book by an author who is no longer with us. Binchy is able to bring a character to life in just one chapter. This one is a fitting final book.Stonybridge is a small village on the west coast of Ireland. It's a typical village in that the young people yearn to leave. Chicky Ryan was no different, and, against her parents' wishes, she took up with an American

I was a little afraid to read this book because sometimes the last book before an author's death can be a little sad, a little unfinished, a little lacking. That is not the case in this book. It's like Binchey waved a magic wand and sprinkled a writer's fairy dust on it while she wrote. I thought her last few ones had been a little weak but this one makes up for those. Binchey likes to intertwine characters from other novels into the new ones but this one is relatively sparse of connections. The

This was a great cozy. I love how MB can creat such ingenious characters that really stick with you. This story is a walk through the lives and backgrounds of a group of people who have never met and are from different places in the world. One week they all end up at a magical bed and breakfast. Not a paranormal place, just a place where it's history creates a sense and environment prone to heeling. MB makes it easy to get to know, care about and take journeys with all her wonderful characters.

Forget vampires, sado-masochism et al, the so-called 'in vogue' genres in the literature of today. Curling up with a Maeve Binchy novel is a bit like snuggling up on a cold winter's night with a big mug of hot chocolate. Like the chocolate, you never want the book to end, yet you cannot put it down until you do so. She gently pulls you into the plotline, introducing the characters one by one, each with their own agenda. The focal point in 'A Week in Winter' is Stone House, a newly-opened hotel,

This is one of those days I truly loathe Goodreads. Somehow my writeup was deleted after I finished it but before it was posted. Sigh. Once more into the breach.A lovely book. The first I've ever read by Binchy, but based on this, probably not the last, especially since her long time fans seem to indicate that this is not the best. Great characters, very little plot. The novel is organized around one Chicky Starr, and her efforts to restore an old estate and convert it into a full service inn.

I loved this book so much. I can't believe this was her last book and she is gone. I haven't read her in years but going to go back and start reading them when I can. I highly recommend this book. I fell in love with each character and the Inn as well. Ok so one of the characters I didn't fall in love with but felt sorry for her. I love how all of these people from all walks of life come together at this beautiful Inn and that you also get a glimpse into their lives and what brought them there.