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From the bestselling author of Light A Penny Candle and Circle of Friends comes this vintage collection of stories set in the heart of Dublin’s fashionable Southside.

• A society hostess entertains her husband’s mistresst to dinner . . .

• A country girl savours the delights of city life . . .

• A student faces the dilemma of unmarried pregnancy . . .

• A drink-ridden photographer tries to relaunch his shattered career . . .

Dublin 4 has all Maeve Binchy’s intimate grasp of human feelings, her marvellous ear for dialogue, her subtle sense of the confusion of life. It bubbles over with fun and wit – yet sometimes leaves a taste of sadness.

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Desmond and Deirdre Doyle will have been married for twenty-five years in October. It falls to the Doyles’ eldest daughter, Anna, to decide how best to commemorate her parents’ Silver Wedding. No use asking her sister Helen, living in her London convent, or her brother Brendan, who has chosen another form of exile on a bleak farm in the West of Ireland.

But it is unthinkable not to have a party, even though for the Doyles, family occasions are more difficult than for most. For each of them is keeping up a front, nursing a secret wound, or smarting over a hidden betrayal. And as the day draws nearer, so the tension mounts, until finally the guests gather at the party itself . . .

‘Maeve Binchy is one of the few writers who can pull at your heartstrings . . . she has a touching belief in goodness, but knows that bad things happen . . . reading her books is like gossiping with old friends’
Daily Express

‘A joy to read from start to finish’
Best

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Big, generous-hearted Benny and elfin Eve Malone have been best friends growing up in sleepy Knockglen. Their one thought is to get to Dublin, to university and to freedom . . .

On their first day at University College, Dublin, the inseparable pair are thrown together with fellow students Nan Malone, beautiful but selfish, and handsome Jack Foley. But trouble is brewing for Benny and Eve’s new circle of friends, and before long, they find passion, tragedy – and the independence they yearned for.

‘Binchy’s novels are never less than entertaining. They are, without exception, repositories of common sense and good humour . . . chronicled with tenderness and wit’
Sunday Times

‘Full of warmth and pure delight’
Woman & Home

‘As gripping as a blockbuster, but infinitely gentler and wiser’
Cosmopolitan

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