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  • This Year Will Be Different and Other Stories

  • Auteur(s): Maeve Binchy
  • Narrateur(s): Fionnula Flanagan
  • Durée: 4 h et 53 min
  • 3,7 out of 5 stars (3 évaluations)

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This Year Will Be Different and Other Stories

Auteur(s): Maeve Binchy
Narrateur(s): Fionnula Flanagan
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Circle of Friends and The Glass Lake comes This Year It Will Be Different, a stunning work that brings us the magic and spirit of Christmas in 15 stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius. Instead of nostalgia, Binchy evokes contemporary life; instead of Christmas homilies, she offers truth; and instead of sugarplums, she brings us the nourishment of holidays that precipitate change, growth, and new beginnings. 

In "A Typical Irish Christmas", a grieving New York widower heads for a holiday in Ireland and finds an unexpected destination not just for himself, but for a father and daughter at odds. 

The title story "This Year It Will Be Different" also delves into the emotions of a person at mid-life - a woman with a complacent husband and grown children who are entering a season that can forever alter her life, and theirs. 

In "Pulling Together", a teacher not yet out of her 20s sees her affair with a married man at a turning point as Christmas Eve approaches - and she may be off on a new direction with some unusual friends. 

And in the delightful tale "The Hard Core", the four most recalcitrant residents of a nursing home are left alone at Christmas with the owner's daughter in charge: the result is sure to be disaster - or the kind of life-affirming renewal that only the spirit of the season can bring. 

The stories in This Year It Will Be Different powerfully evoke many lives - step-families grappling with ex's, long-married couples faced with in-law problems, a wandering husband choosing between "the other woman" and his wife, a child 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 universal. And Maeve Binchy makes us care about them all. As the Philadelphia Inquirer noted, "Maeve Binchy's people come to life fully. They make you laugh and cry and disturb your sleep." They do precisely that in this extraordinary collection, on the night before Christmas when we are snug in our beds, or anywhere, any time of the year.  

Please note: This is an historical recording. The audio quality represents the technology of the time when it was produced.

©1996 Maeve Binchy (P)1996 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House, Inc.

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Great as always...but

Maeve Binchy never disappoints. The narrator was wonderful as always but it’s I pity the audio quality was poor thus making understanding sometimes difficult

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Sound Quality is Terrible

I listen to this collection of short stories every year at this time and love them. I was very disappointed with this audiobook- the performance was great but the sound quality is crap. it sounded like she recorded it through the phone. An old rotary phone.

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