Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Maeve Binchy
• Title: Nights of Rain and Stars
• Publisher: ‎ Dutton
• Publication Date: September 2004
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover -‎ 294 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 052594754X
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0525947547
• Reading age: ‎ 14 years and up
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.4 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent

Synopsis:

The lives of four strangers are forever altered when they meet in a Greek seaside village in this compelling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy.

Tourists enter the hilltop tavern, alone and in pairs, for a casual lunch. But a sudden tragedy in the harbor below causes these perfect strangers to become unlikely friends as their lives begin to entwine…

Fiona left her nursing career in Ireland to be with the man everyone thinks is wrong for her. Elsa fled Germany and her high-powered television job once she learned what the man she loved was hiding from her. Thomas mourns his failed marriage and misses his young son in California, while David yearns to reconcile with his family in England without having to go into the family business. Chance has brought them together, and together they will find new ways of looking at the lives they left behind.

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.