Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
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Book Reviews of Heart and Soul
Book Review: A perfect title for a perfect book
Summary: 5 Stars
Heart and Soul is truly what this is book is about. Maeve Binchy brings you into the lives and homes of each character and brings other characters back and makes them inter twine perfectly like a magnificiant tapestry. She creates a story in a heart clinic, pure genius! From the very first written word to the last you cannot put this book down. You are invited into the lives of each character you share their happiness and sorrow. You feel like you are right there, a part of this world. The simple things in life that we take for granted, Maeve Binchy reminds us of it. I have read every one of her books and hope she writes forever. Reading this book, I want to go back and re read them all. I want to go back and re visit the lives of Cathy and Tom Scarlett, how they met and what they went through together. Fiona, when she was in Greece, I feel like they are my old friends. Maeve Binchy's writing style captures you from the very start. I can never put her books down. The respect she has for people, life, love, her country and characters, to see it through her writing just takes you there. I can't wait for her next book.Book Review: Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
Summary: 5 Stars
Another great read from Maeve Binchy, filled with love, compassion, suspence, and yes, even intrigue, set in a heart clinic in today's Ireland. When Dr. Clara Casey is offered the job of establishing the underfunded clinic she almost turns it down since she has enough on her plate as it is, namely an ex-husband who won't leave her alone, and two recalcitrant daughters who won't grow up.
But reluctantly she accepts the challenge and to her surprise both she and the cliic survive and prosper, due in great part to a devoted cast of characters who help her meet the demands of their often difficult patients with both humor and understanding. One can't help being touched by sweet Ania, the little Polish girl, whose heart was broen by a cad but finds love again, or cheer the romance of nice Dr. Declan and the beautirul Fiona, or laugh at the antics of the fantastically talented twins, Maud and Simon, who not only cook but finish each other's sentences. These are just a few of the marvelously diverse characters who people this enchanting book and make you laugh, cry, and care. Maeve Binch at her best.
Book Review: Warm, wonderful and unique
Summary: 5 Stars
Maeve Binchy is back at her best. She tells a heartwarming story of interesting characters whose lives have ups and downs but everything works out in the end. Its life-reaffirming and comforting all at once without being overdone. I read many "chick lit" books and find that they are more pleasurable for the fantasy qualities. Binchy gives pleasure to the sheer ordinariness of live, acknowledges that there is drama in life, but that life does not have to be driven by drama. I love how she has woven in characters from at least the last five books she has written. It feels like meeting old friends. My only regret is that there is not some published summary of the stories of all these characters because sometimes I forget everything that happened in previous books. It's not necessary to enjoy this book, but it would be fun to be reminded of everything. Of course, I could just go back and read the old books which would be pleasurable in itself!Book Review: Vintage Maeve Binchy
Summary: 5 Stars
Maeve Binchy is basically a writer of short stories. She can introduce a character, sketch out what he/she is like, and then fill in the lines quicker than any other author I can think of. She can create characters whom readers care about and concoct any number of interesting situations for them. In this book the main character is Dr. Clara Casey, a woman with two troublesome daughters and a dissolving marriage, who has taken over the running of a heart clinic in Ireland. Each chapter is essentially a short story which tells a tale of each of the clinic's employees and their families. Binchy uses gentle humor and her deep knowledge of human nature and knits together these separate tales into a delightful whole. In my opinion, this is the best book that Binchy has written in quite awhile.Book Review: Quintessential Maeve Binchy
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved the book. I had a hard time putting it down. Although that's one of the things I like about her books -- that you can put them down at the end of a chapter and go to sleep. Because each chapter is essentially a "short story" about one of the characters that stands on it's own -- yet at the same time each fits into the mosaic of stories about interrelated characters. And this book is quintessential Maeve Binchy. Now she has taken characters from past books (Fr. Brian Flynn of Whitethorn Woods; Fiona of Nights of Rain & Stars; Brenda Brennan of Quentins; Muttie and Simon and Maud of Scarlet Feather; Aidan Dunne & Signora of Evening Class; etc), and interwoven their lives with a variety of new characters.