Book description
Filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit and true storytelling genius,
THIS YEAR IT WILL BE DIFFERENT powerfully evokes the lives of wives,
husbands, children, friends and lovers. There are step-families
grappling with exes; long-married couples faced with in-law problems; a
wandering husband choosing between the other woman and his wife; a child
caught up in a grown-up tug-of-war... Warm, witty and with a deep
understanding of what makes us tick, THIS YEAR IT WILL BE DIFFERENT
superbly demonstrates why Maeve Binchy's stories have become
world-beaters. Maeve Binchy was born in County Dublin and educated at
the Holy Child convent in Killiney and at University College, Dublin.
After a spell as a teacher she joined the Irish Times. Her first novel,
Light a Penny Candle, was published in 1982 and she went on to write
over twenty books, all of them bestsellers. Several have been adapted
for cinema and television, most notably Circle of Friends and Tara Road
. Maeve Binchy received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Book
Awards in 1999 and the Irish PEN/A. T. Cross award in 2007. In 2010 she
was presented with the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bord
Gáis Irish Book Awards by the President of Ireland. She was married to
the writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell for 35 years, and died in 2012.
Visit her website at
www. maevebinchy. com
