03034cam a2200469 i 4500 532099118 TxAuBib 121102t20132012||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012039948 9780307273574 hardback 0307273571 hardback 9780345805867 paperback 0345805860 paperback 9780307475503 pbk. 0307475506 pbk. 40022034881 (OCoLC)818292968 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO UPZ YDXCP BTCTA BDX B@L IEB YW6 BWX EEK TXA UBY CDX YUS OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCQ CHVBK OCLCO IGP OCLCA OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ TxAuBib rda Binchy, Maeve, 1940-2012. A week in winter / Maeve Binchy. First United States edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. ©2012. 325 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published in Great Britain in slightly different form by Orion Books, London, in 2012"--Title page verso. "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. Bed and breakfast accommodations Fiction. Bed and breakfast accommodations. City and town life Ireland Fiction. City and town life. FICTION Family Life. FICTION Contemporary Women. FICTION Literary. Roman. Englisch. Ireland Fiction. Ireland. Fiction.