Date issued: February 2009
ISBN: 978-0307265791
Woman’s Fiction
Hardcover
Reviewed by Valerie
Maeve Binchy has set this story in a Dublin Heart Clinic. Here Clara Casey has been given the job of establishing this clinic. After a humiliating separation from her philandering husband, she gets down to work and devotes all her time and energy into it. At home, she has two adult daughters who seem to still need her as would children. Who said the teenage years were the worst?
Although the story is basically about Clara, Ms. Binchy introduces a host of equally interesting characters and tells their equally interesting stories. We meet Declan Carroll, a young doctor who is striving to become a general practioner. He meets and falls in love with another worker at the clinic. Clara meets Ania, a Polish immigrant and gives her a job and one of the clinic’s patients, Carl Walsh is attracted to her.
I found there was hardly a dull moment in this story as Ms. Binchy interweaves everyone’s lives together in this heartwarming and delightful story. Each character had conflicts to overcome, internal and external and I found myself rooting for everyone to find their happy ending. Ms. Binchy writes a really down to earth story that pulls you in and holds you captive. Her characters are normal, everyday people, with normal and everyday problems and she weaves their lives together and produces a story that will warm your heart, have you cheering and maybe even have you shedding a tear. I don’t usually pick up this kind of book on my own to read, but I am glad I had the opportunity to read this one. I can highly recommend it and I have it on my shelf to pick up and read again. I’m sure I will savor the story and characters even more the second time around.
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