A week in winter / by Maeve Binchy.
"Maeve Binchy, "the grand story teller,"* returns with a cast of characters you will never forget when they all spend a winter week together on holiday at Stone House, a restful inn by the sea... Stoneyville is a small town on the coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. When Chicky decides to take an old decaying mansion, Stone House, and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, the town thinks she is crazy. She is helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the place) and her niece Orla (a whiz at business). Finally the first week of paying guests arrive: John, the American movie star thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian, forced into taking a holiday together; Nuala and Henry, husband and wife , both doctors who have been shaken by seeing too much death; Anders, the Swedish boy, hates his father's business, but has a real talent for music; Miss Nell Howe, a retired school teacher, who criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyone's relief; the Walls who have entered in 200 contests (and won everything from a microwave oven to velvet curtains, including the week at Stone House); and Freda , the psychic who is afraid of her own visions. You will laugh and cry as you spend the week with this odd group who share their secrets and might even have some of their dreams come true. "-- Provided by publisher.
Follows the efforts of a woman who turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of a week share laughter and the heartache of respective challenges.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307273574
- ISBN: 0307273571
- ISBN: 9781101973769
- ISBN: 9780307475503
- ISBN: 9780345805867
- Physical Description: 326 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First American edition
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in Great Britain in slightly different form by Orion Books, London, in 2012"--T.p. verso. |
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| Subject: | Bed and breakfast accommodations > Fiction. City and town life > Ireland > Fiction. Mansions > Ireland > Fiction. Hospitality > Fiction. Ireland > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Fiction. |
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- 116 of 124 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Angier Public Library | F Bin (Text) | 33632002198407 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | F BINCHY (Text) | 39493107305551 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Alexander Main Library | F Binchy (Text) | 34269001096297 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Andrews Public Library | F BIN (Text) | 80605000791425 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | F BIN (Text) | 50503011009380 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/13/2025 |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | FIC BIN (Text) | 31111002518643 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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| Boonville Community Public Library | F BINCHY (Text) | 30005100181752 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Summary:
"Maeve Binchy, "the grand story teller,"* returns with a cast of characters you will never forget when they all spend a winter week together on holiday at Stone House, a restful inn by the sea... Stoneyville is a small town on the coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. When Chicky decides to take an old decaying mansion, Stone House, and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, the town thinks she is crazy. She is helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the place) and her niece Orla (a whiz at business). Finally the first week of paying guests arrive: John, the American movie star thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian, forced into taking a holiday together; Nuala and Henry, husband and wife , both doctors who have been shaken by seeing too much death; Anders, the Swedish boy, hates his father's business, but has a real talent for music; Miss Nell Howe, a retired school teacher, who criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyone's relief; the Walls who have entered in 200 contests (and won everything from a microwave oven to velvet curtains, including the week at Stone House); and Freda , the psychic who is afraid of her own visions. You will laugh and cry as you spend the week with this odd group who share their secrets and might even have some of their dreams come true. "--
Follows the efforts of a woman who turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of a week share laughter and the heartache of respective challenges.
Follows the efforts of a woman who turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of a week share laughter and the heartache of respective challenges.
