This Year It Will Be Different: Christmas tales - Softcover

Maeve Binchy

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9780752893761: This Year It Will Be Different: Christmas tales

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752893769 ISBN 13: 9780752893761

Publisher: Orion, 2008

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THIS YEAR IT WILL BE DIFFERENT AND OTHER STORIES. Filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit and true storytelling genious, THIS YEAR IT WILL BE DIFFERENT powerfully evokes the lives of wives, husbands, children, friends and lovers, all set during the one holiday when feelings cannot easily be hidden. There are 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 up in a grown-up tug-of-war... The festive season may be magical, but it can also be a time of family difficulties, a time to reflect on relationships; a time of change.

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From the Publisher:

"Poignant. . . Compassionate. . . All the stories boast Binchy's deft touch and knowing warmth."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"What makes [Binchy's] stories so inviting is the subtle way they tilt from humor to sorrow, then back again, in the blink of an eye."
--Detroit News/Free Press

"Wonderful."
--Cincinnati Post

"Timeless."
--Kansas City Star

"A delight."
--Chattanooga Free Press

From the Inside Flap:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Circle of Friends, The Glass Lake, and Evening Class comes a stunning collection of fifteen Christmas stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius. In "A Typical Irish Christmas," a grieving widower heads for a holiday in Ireland and finds an unexpected destination not just for himself, but for a father and daughter in crisis. . . . In "Pulling Together," a teacher not yet out of her twenties sees her affair with a married man at a turning point as Christmas Eve approaches. . . . And in the title story, "This Year It Will Be Different," a woman with a complacent husband and grown children enters a season that will forever alter her life, and theirs. . .

These stories, and a dozen more, powerfully evoke many lives--from step-families grappling with exes to children caught in grown-up tugs-of-war--during the one holiday when feelings cannot be easily hidden. The time of year may be magical, imbued with meaning. But the situations are timeless. And Maeve Binchy makes us care about them all.

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