Chestnut Street

Chestnut Street

Maeve Binchy imagined a street in Dublin with many characters coming and going, and every once in a while she would write about one of these people. She would then put it in a drawer; â€œfor the future,â€ she would say. The future is now.

Across town from St. Jarlathâ€™s Crescent, featured in Minding Frankie, is Chestnut Street, where neighbors come and go. Behind their closed doors we encounter very different people with different life circumstances, occupations, and sensibilities. Some of the unforgettable characters lovingly brought to life by Binchy are Bucket Maguire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to protect his son; Nessa Byrne, whose aunt visits from Â America every summer and turns the houseâ€”and Nessaâ€™s worldâ€”upside down; Lilian, the generous girl with the big heart and a fiancÃ© whom no one approves of; Melly, whose gossip about the neighbors helps Madame Magic, a self-styled fortune-teller, get everyone on the right track; Dolly, who discovers more about her perfect mother than she ever wanted to know; and Molly, who learns the cure for sleeplessness from her pen pal from Chicago . . .

Chestnut Street is written with the humor and understanding that are earmarks of Maeve Binchyâ€™s extraordinary work and, once again, she warms our hearts with her storytelling.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 0385351852
ReleaseDate 2014-04-22
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780385351850

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	0385351852
ReleaseDate	2014-04-22
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780385351850

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