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The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy
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The Return Journey (original 1998; edition 2007)

by Maeve Binchy (Author)

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Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. HTML:In this extraordinary collection of stories, New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy once again reveals her incomparable understanding of matters of the heart with powerfully compelling stories of love, loss, revelation, and reconciliation.

A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip. . . .
A man and a woman's mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can be. . . .
An insecure wife clings to the illusion of order, only to discover chaos at the hands of a house sitter who opens the wrong doors. . . .
A pair of star-crossed travelers take each other's bags, and then learn that when you unlock a stranger's suitcase, you enter a stranger's life.

In their company are many more, whose poignant, ironic, often humorous storiesâ??unforgettable slices of lifeâ??make up The Return Journey, a spellbinding trip into the human
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Title:The Return Journey
Authors:Maeve Binchy (Author)
Info:Dell (2007), Edition: Reprint, 240 pages
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The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy (Author) (1998)

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A collection of short stories, unconnected to each other, about the usual topics Binchy writes about — as the blurb puts it, "matters of the heart with powerfully compelling stories of love, loss, revelation and reconciliation." I'm not sure about "powerful" but the rest tracks pretty well. Too many of the stories have a sort of O. Henry twist that is cute the first time and pales in subsequent usage.

I really enjoy Binchy's writing but I don't think short stories are her milieu. She's much better in the sprawling multi-generational sagas of her early career, like Circle of Friends or Firefly Summer, or the later interconnected novels set in Dublin, like Tara Road or Quentins. A shorter format just doesn't give Binchy room to work her gentle magic, which thrives when she's giving us multiple points of view across people and time. ( )
  rosalita | Oct 4, 2023 |
This book was entirely short stories and all involved travel of some sort. Most of the characters seemed happier on the surface than the actually were. With the exception of the first story, they felt little pretty complete stories despite their length. I'd have liked the first story to be longer because I honestly had no idea what happened at the end. ( )
  Mishale1 | Dec 29, 2018 |
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  wordswordswords | Oct 25, 2018 |
Short stories on relationships of different kinds and human interactions. ( )
  ElizabethCromb | Dec 28, 2016 |
Read for a challenge (Irish author"). Sweet short stories, ranging from horehound (intense) to fudge (rich) to cotton candy (fluff), so to speak. The best ones were the ones that had a little bit of the bitter, or the not-quite-happy ending." ( )
  Cheryl_in_CC_NV | Jun 6, 2016 |
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Binchy, MaeveAuthorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Prummer-Lehmair, ChristaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Schuhmacher, SonjaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
WeiĂź, Robert A.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. HTML:In this extraordinary collection of stories, New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy once again reveals her incomparable understanding of matters of the heart with powerfully compelling stories of love, loss, revelation, and reconciliation.

A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip. . . .
A man and a woman's mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can be. . . .
An insecure wife clings to the illusion of order, only to discover chaos at the hands of a house sitter who opens the wrong doors. . . .
A pair of star-crossed travelers take each other's bags, and then learn that when you unlock a stranger's suitcase, you enter a stranger's life.

In their company are many more, whose poignant, ironic, often humorous storiesâ??unforgettable slices of lifeâ??make up The Return Journey, a spellbinding trip into the human

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