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Maeve's Times
- Author
- Maeve Binchy
- Narrator
- Kate Binchy
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 12 September 2013
- Run Time
- 11 hours 54 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Maeve Binchy is well-known for her bestselling novels, the most recent of which was A WEEK IN WINTER. But for many years Maeve was a journalist, writing for the IRISH TIMES. From 'The Student Train' to 'Plane Bores' and 'Bathroom Joggers' to 'When Beckett met Binchy', these articles have all the warmth, wit and humanity of her fiction. Arranged in decades, from the 1960s to the 2000s, and including Maeve's first and last ever piece of writing for the IRISH TIMES, the columns also give a fascinating insight into the author herself.
With an introduction written by her husband, the writer Gordon Snell, this collection of timeless writing reminds us of why the leading Irish writer was so universally loved.
Read by Kate Binchy
(p) 2013 Orion Publishing Group
Critics Review
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Binchy . . . is a class act
DAILY EXPRESS
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Maeve's Times is funny and clever and kind, which are excellent qualities in both books and people ... what this wonderful collection of her work for this paper from 1964 to 2011 makes abundantly clear is that she was a superb journalist
Irish Times
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This selection of her work represents Binchy's eclectic interests, infectious sense of humor and wry take on social change... A blithe, entertaining collection that will surely delight Binchy's many fans.
KIRKUS
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While the collection makes an enjoyable read on the merit of humor alone, editor Ingle's selections capture Binchy's journalistic apprenticeship, record an intelligent woman's perspective on a changing world, and offer entertaining glimpses of biography that Binchy fans will adore.
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You can see why, for a legion of female readers, Maeve Binchy is a one-woman opiate of the people
EVENING STANDARD
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Maeve Binchy's work continues to inspire . . . thought-provoking, warm and funny in equal measure
WOMAN
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Maeve had this marvellously black sense of humour and she was wildly funny and entertaining
Cathy Kelly
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Anyone seeking a wonderful spread of Maeve Binchy's unshowy, compelling, witty, truthful writing would find riches in MAEVE'S TIMES ... She has the writer's sense of how one word can make a phrase burst into life ... hugely enjoyable
Joseph O'Connor
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Details
- Author
- Maeve Binchy
- Narrator
- Kate Binchy
- Duration
- 11 hours 54 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 September 2013
- ISBN
- 9781409150114
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Educational: First / native language: Literature studies, Anthologies, News media and journalism
Synopsis
As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am obsessively interested in what some might consider the trivia of other people's lives.'Maeve Binchy is well-known for her bestselling novels, the most recent of which was A WEEK IN WINTER. But for many years Maeve was a journalist, writing for the IRISH TIMES. From 'The Student Train' to 'Plane Bores' and 'Bathroom Joggers' to 'When Beckett met Binchy', these articles have all the warmth, wit and humanity of her fiction. Arranged in decades, from the 1960s to the 2000s, and including Maeve's first and last ever piece of writing for the IRISH TIMES, the columns also give a fascinating insight into the author herself.With an introduction written by her husband, the writer Gordon Snell, this collection of timeless writing reminds us of why the leading Irish writer was so universally loved.Read by Kate Binchy(p) 2013 Orion Publishing Group
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