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Maeve's Times

In Her Own Words

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Maeve's Times

By: Maeve Binchy
Narrated by: Kate Binchy
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Five decades of selected writings from the Irish Times by the beloved and best-selling author, filled with her hallmark humor, candor, and wisdom - a timeless gift to her legion of fans.

Maeve Binchy once confessed: "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." She was an accidental journalist, yet from the beginning, her writings reflected the warmth, wit, and keen human interest that audiences would come to love in her fiction. From the royal wedding to boring airplane companions, Samuel Beckett to Margaret Thatcher, "senior moments" to life as a waitress, Maeve's Times gives us wonderful insight into a changing Ireland as it celebrates the work of one of our best-loved writers in all its diversity - revealing her characteristic directness, laugh-out-loud humor, and unswerving gaze into the true heart of a matter.

©2014 Maeve Binchy (P)2014 Random House Audio
Anthologies & Short Stories Essays European Fiction Ireland Literary History & Criticism Women Nonfiction Short Story Witty Royalty

Editorial reviews

"Delightful… This warm, down-to-earth collection…works wonderfully. Fans of the author’s novels will enjoy learning more about her early life and about an earlier Ireland." (Henrietta Verma, Library Journal)

Critic reviews

"Binchy's trademark warmth, humor, and humanity characterize this volume…. Wit, sarcasm, and big-heartedness emerge as hallmarks of [her] 'direct and uncluttered style.'... 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 a biography that Binchy fans will adore." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Spanning five decades, this collection of Binchy's trademark columns celebrates her unabashed delight in the human condition, yes; but it also uncovers a much sharper wit and a more trenchant observer with a more cynical attitude than she ever divulged in her fiction. For the legions of fans who mourned her passing, this revelatory collection of essays brings a little of their cherished Maeve back, and then some." (Carol Haggas, Booklist)