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The Resource A week in winter, Maeve Binchy

A week in winter, Maeve Binchy

Summary: Follows the efforts of Chicky who, with the help of Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the place) and her niece Orla (a whiz at business), 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. 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

Language: eng

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Publication

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2013

Extent: 325 pages

Isbn: 9780307273574

Label: A week in winter

Title: A week in winter

Statement of responsibility: Maeve Binchy

Language: eng

Summary: Follows the efforts of Chicky who, with the help of Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the place) and her niece Orla (a whiz at business), 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. 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

Title: A week in winter

Binchy, Maeve

Summary: 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

Character-driven

Leisurely paced

Heartwarming

Writing style

Engaging

Likeable

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Cataloging source: DLC

Dewey number: 823/.914

Index: no index present

LC call number: PR6052.I7728

LC item number: W44 2013

Literary form: fiction

Target audience: adult

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Label: A week in winter, Maeve Binchy

Publication

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2013

©2012

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Carrier category: volume

Carrier MARC source: rdacarrier

Content category: text

Content type MARC source: rdacontent

Control code: 21030157

Dimensions: 25 cm

Extent: 325 pages

Isbn: 9780307273574

Isbn Type: (hardcover)

Lccn: 2012039948

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

Other control number: 9780307273574

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(OCoLC)818292968

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