This Year It Will Be Different
- Author Maeve Binchy
- Narrator Kate Binchy
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 6 hours and 11 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Contemporary romance, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction.
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Price p/Title
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What to expect
This Year It Will Be Different brings us the magic and spirit of Christmas in fifteen stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius. Instead of nostalgia, Binchy evokes contemporary life; instead of Christmas homilies, she offers truth; and instead of sugarplums, she brings us the nourishment of holidays that precipitate change, growth, and new beginnings. The stories in This Year It Will Be Different powerfully evoke many lives during the one holiday of the year when feelings cannot be easily hidden: step-families grappling with exes; long-married couples faced with in-law problems; a wandering husband choosing between 'the other woman' and his wife; a child caught in the grown-up tug-of-war. The time of year may be magical, imbued with personal meaning, but the situations are universal, and Maeve Binchy makes us care about them all.
Read by Kate Binchy
(p) 2007 Orion Publishing Group
Critics Review
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There’s nobody like Binchy for warming the cockles, and this collection of Christmas stories warms them to white heat.
THE TIMES -
With her gift for effortless characterisation and homely detail, she evokes power shifts in families, unwelcome discoveries, conspiracies, affairs, forgiveness, sorrow and the rebirth of optimism with her usual warmth and sympathy.
SUNDAY TIMES -
Brilliant, family-oriented short stories … Binchy fans will love it – i did! 5/5
WOMAN'S OWN -
We are all in her pages, all of us: mothers, daughters, fathers, sons, husbands, wives, children, friends, lovers … It is this combination of Maeve’s understanding of what it is to be human, and how to cope with life, that makes her so popular
Veronica Henry -
A master storyteller
Marian Keyes -
Her storytelling ability is second to none
SUNDAY EXPRESS
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