Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Maeve Binchy
• Title: Heart and Soul
• Publisher: ‎ Alfred A. Knopf; First U.S. Edition (February 17, 2009)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Deckle Edge -‎ 418 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 030726579X
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0307265791
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.62 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.69 x 1.49 x 9.62 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First U.S. Edition

Synopsis:

A story of patients and staff, family, and friends who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old Ireland and the new. 

Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. She has plenty on her plate already—two difficult adult daughters and the unwanted attentions of her ex-husband—but she assembles a wonderfully diverse staff devoted to helping their demanding, often difficult patients.

Before long the clinic is established as an essential part of the community, and Clara must decide whether or not to leave a place where lives are saved, courage is rewarded, and humor and optimism triumph over greed and self-pity. 

About the Author:

Born in a small town in Dublin County, Ireland in 1940, Maeve Binchy Snell earned a B.A, degree from University College, Dublin. She worked as a history and Latin teacher in Dublin, then as a news reporter at The Irish Times.

In the early 1980s, she published her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, using her maiden name Maeve Binchy as her pen name. She was the author of sixteen novels, many of which were international bestsellers, as well as radio dramas and television screenplays.

One of her most successful novels, A Circle of Friends, was adapted into a movie of the same title, starring Minnie Glover and Chris O'Donnell. Tara Road, another bestseller, also became a film, starring Andie McDowell and Olivia Williams.

Among the many honors she received, Binchy was awarded both the British Book and Irish Book Lifetime Achievement awards.

She died in 2012, and her last book, A Week in Winter, was published later that year.