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Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy. Helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the house) and Orla, her niece (a whiz at business), Chicky is finally ready to welcome the first guests to Stone House’s big warm kitchen, log fires, and understated elegant bedrooms. John, the American movie star, thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian are forced into taking a holiday together; Nicola and Henry, husband and wife, have been shaken by seeing too much death practicing medicine; Anders hates his father’s business, but has a real talent for music; Miss Nell Howe, a retired schoolteacher, criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyone’s relief; the Walls are disappointed to have won this second-prize holiday in a contest where first prize was Paris; and Freda, the librarian, is afraid of her own psychic visions.
Sharing a week with this unlikely cast of characters is pure joy, full of Maeve’s trademark warmth and humor. Once again, she embraces us with her grand storytelling.
- Sales Rank: #135642 in Books
- Brand: Knopf
- Published on: 2013-02-12
- Released on: 2013-02-12
- Format: Deckle Edge
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.54" h x 1.12" w x 6.60" l, 1.32 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 336 pages
- Great product!
From Booklist
Published posthumously, the late great Binchy’s last novel is an appropriately heartwarming and spirit-restoring swan song. In classic Binchy style, the gentle story is populated with a large cast of often eccentric, always endearing, characters who effortlessly weave their way in and out of a deceptively simple narrative. Stone House, a country inn on the West Coast of Ireland, is owned and operated by Chicky Starr, a Stoneybridge native lately returned after living a largely lonely life in the U.S., and it serves as the cozy setting for these interrelated tales of love, loss, friendship, and community. Specializing in winter holidays, Stone House plays host to a variety of guests whose lives are bound to change for the better once they succumb to both its vintage charms and the restorative powers of companionship and human kindness. Pour yourself a cup of tea, put your feet up, and prepare to savor this bit of comfort food for the soul. High-Demand Backstory: The late Binchy’s last hurrah does not disappoint; expect even more demand than usual for this final love letter to her legion of fans. --Margaret Flanagan
Review
“Fittingly, this posthumously published work by Ireland’s beloved lady of letters is itself a love letter to her homeland. . . Binchy offers a final chance to enjoy her winning characters and the charm of Irish culture. . . Reading this novel is like ducking out of a cold rain into a fire-warmed pub filled with laughter.” —People
“Lovely. . . Tailor-made for an afternoon jaunt through the backcountry of western Ireland. . . Binchy’s last novel radiates the warmth and charm that fans of the late Irish author will recognize and relish. . . . [her] prose is conversational, comfortable and populated with a cast of colorful characters that run the gamut from droll to dry. . . a delightful diversion.” —Mary Cadden, USA Today
“A hopeful, loving novel chronicling lives shaped by good deeds, small favors, and honest counsel along the rocky crags of the Irish coast. Fans of Binchy and newcomers to her work alike should consider themselves fortunate to have been left such a clear-eyed and open-hearted final gift.” —The Daily Beast
“A Week in Winter goes perfectly with a cup of tea. . . . a gratifying, blustery read full of rich characters, a sea-spray setting and a compelling plot that carries the reader from start to end. . . . Binchy has created a book that envelops its reader in the same calming serenity that Stone House provides its inhabitants.” —Shelly Walston, The Wichita Eagle
“A treat as rich as a box of chocolates.” —aarp.org
“The late great Binchy’s last novel is an appropriately heartwarming and spirit restoring swan song. In classic Binchy-style, the gentle story is populated with a large cast of often eccentric, always endearing characters. . . Stone House, a country inn on the West Coast of Ireland serves as the cozy setting for these interrelated tales of love, loss, friendship, and community. . . . Pour yourself a cup of tea, put your feet up, and prepare to savor this bit of comfort food for the soul.” —Booklist
“Classic Binchy. . . her fans will find solace as hearts mend and relationships sort themselves out one last time.” —Kirkus
About the Author
Maeve Binchy is the author of numerous best-selling books, including her most recent novels, Minding Frankie, Heart and Soul, and Whitethorn Woods, as well as Circle of Friends and Tara Road, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. She has written for Gourmet; O, The Oprah Magazine; Modern Maturity; and Good Housekeeping, among other publications. Married to Gordon Snell, she lived in Dalkey, Ireland, until her death in July 2012 at the age of seventy-two, shortly after finishing this book.
Most helpful customer reviews
408 of 430 people found the following review helpful.
Maeve Binchy's books are like wrapping yourself in a duvet
By JEJohnson
I always fall into a book by Maeve Binchy like falling into a warm bed on
a snowy evening, enveloped in a gloriously cozy down duvet, the lamp on, a
warm drink to hand, ready to be swept away to a place of caring and compassion.
Her theme is always the same - people, confronted by difficulties in life, bad
luck or hard times, and how the choices they make lead to a better life, or one
that is (by their own actions) shut down and made smaller.
Ireland is not only the setting, it is also one of these characters - beautiful and
troubled, or glorious and hopeful; more likely all of these.
Maeve has died, and now that I have read this book, there is that sad realization
that there aren't going to be any new characters to meet - but I will be re-reading
all her books, including this one, which I think is one of the best.
If you are a fan of Maeve Binchy's works, you already know these characters, and
the plots. You know the place - only a small part of the book is set in Dublin; most
of it is in the West, in a village on the coast.
As usual, there are a mis-matched group of near-strangers, brought together for an arbitrary
occassion - this time it is the opening of a small inn - each with a life problem
that must be confronted (or, notably for one character, avoided) and how that
plays out.
The pleasure is in spending time with these people as they face up to their problems,
or fail to, and the understanding (and compassion) for people that Maeve always
shows.
Reading Binchy, I always feel more alive, more aware of other people, more as if I have had a glimpse
into their hearts and minds - and that is a great gift, what only the most profoundly
gifted authors, artists and composers ever achieve.
Binchy's works were, in her lifetime, so often dismissed as romances or women's lit -
I prefer to think of her as a reporter and journalist (as she was, and so was Dickens)
reporting on the heart and mind and soul of people in troubling times.
If you have read other books by Maeve Binchy, you don't need reviews to tell you why you
will love A Week in Winter. If you haven't, but read to understand people (and yourself)
and how relationships really work (or fail to), you will love this book!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Disappointedly Average
By Louisa Livingston
After reading other's reviews of this book, I looked forward to this book. Unfortunately, this book seemed very bland to me, though interesting enough for me to finish it. The story takes place primarily in Ireland. It begins by telling the reader about "Chicky", an interesting young woman who is surprised to find that she is pregnant. The story follows her adventures for awhile; time passes and we learn about her son, family and a few friends. Then, after the first few chapters, a number of chapters each focus on a different, character, each interesting enough. Most of them do not know each other. This book includes quite a cast - from ordinary people to soldiers during the war as well as Counts and Countesses. Periodically I felt more engaged with a particular person's story.
Eventually everything comes together to create the storyline. However, too many people are in this cast for my taste because it takes away from our really getting to know anyone well. For me, this book can't hold a candle to books by Anne Tyler - who writes so vividly that I really know and care about and become involved with each main character.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
I love Binchy, but this one is a disappointment
By Frobisher
Given Maeve Binchy's death last year, and this being her last work, I suppose anything negative will be damned by her readers, but....
If you like Maeve Binchy's books, you either adore them or can't stand them, and if you like one of them, you're more or less likely to like all of them.
There is a chronological development in her novels (in terms of time period) and I find that I have always in general liked the earlier ones better, if just because of the setting in time. Having said that, some of the later ones are terrific too.
However, the real differentiation, to me, in her novels is whether they are what I'll call the traditional novel form, where there's one story and the characters develop and you see this, or they are what I'll call the 'vignette' style.
In the latter, each chapter focuses on a different person, with something in common so that they're not just different short stories, and the context keeps them from being just short stories. The first one I read, "Lilac Bus", was about a van that took people from a village who had moved to Dublin to work, back to their village for weekends. Most of them knew each other, came from the same village and while it was the vignette style, it felt a bit more like a novel. But the common characteristic is that there isn't any real character development, as there's not time; she paints a picture of how everyone is. Many of her later novels of this type have less-connected characters, and this makes them seem less developed.
In general, I think her traditional novels are stronger works. The plot is developed, and you get to see her characters develop and change and they are more complex, and their relationships are more complex.
A Week in Winter is of the vignette style, and that would be OK, except that she tries to develop her characters in too short a time. There are too many "and suddenly some unexpected event occurs and in a moment relationships are changed and all is wonderful." It doesn't work - this one feels tossed off too quickly. Also, there are too many little contradictions, things that an editor should have caught. It's easy to breeze by a couple of them, but at some point they get distracting.
While Binchy is always comfortable, feel-good, escapist reading, and she's a little oversweet at times, and more so in Winter.
I don't know much anything about Binchy's death, and any illness, and maybe she just wasn't well enough to do her best work on this. Most of her readers are going to be glad to have had one more, because she's gone.
If you haven't read her before, read the earlier works; this isn't the book to judge her by.
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