Tara Road

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Summary: YOU MUST READ !
Review: "Tara Road" is one of the most enjoyable book I have read. It is the story of the inner growth of two women: Ria & Maryline. Ria is an Irish woman who lives in Tara Road (a residential area in Dublin) with her husband,Danny, and two children. Their marriage is very happy until she discovers that he's going to have a baby with his new teenager girlfriend. Maryline is an American woman who wants to escape from her house and her husband because they remind her of the recent death of her

son. Thanks to a chance phone call these two women decide to swap their houses for two months. It is through this experience that they both grow and becone more mature and stronger than before because in this period they share friends, habits and also learn awful secrets about each other. However, they both decide not to reveal them in order not to wrek each other's hopes.It is very easy for a foreigner student of English to read this book because the language is everyday and fluent. There are many dialogues which let the reader identify with the characters. So I strongly advise everybody to read it!

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Summary: Tara Road
Review: A mediocre story about 2 women who switch residences: one in England and one in America. It shows how the change of scenery gives them each a new perspective and allows them to accept their life circumstances better. (This is not one of the better Maeve Binchy stories).

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Summary: Very intriguing...
Review: book. Hard to put down. Characters all brilliant and well worth the read. Lots of twists and never dull. Left me with a lot of questions; like there was going to be a sequel but I don't know if I would read the sequel.

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Summary: DON'T COMPARE MAEVE TO DANIELLE STEELE!
Review: I am giving TARA ROAD three stars because it is not my favorite Maeve Binchy novel - I don't think the secondary characters were developed as well as in some of her other books. Yes, the story has elements of a soap opera, but please don't compare it to anything written by Danielle Steele. I have never been able to get through one chapter of any of her books that have come my way. Okay, I did read MESSAGE FROM NAM, she must have had a ghost-writer. Excuse me, I digress. TARA ROAD is an enjoyable read. The main character, Ria, changes throughout the book, and I really liked her. She seemed very real to me, like a good friend. My only complaint about this book is at times it was a bit slow, and not 100% believable, but so what, it's a novel. The story itself is actually very inspiring, about friendship as well as self-reliance. I definitley recommend TARA ROAD to all Maeve Binchy fans, and for those who've never experienced Maeve, if you like good stories with characters who become like friends, please give her books a try. However, for first time readers of Maeve, you might want to start with ECHOES or EVENING CLASS, which are two of her best!

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Summary: Can't help it! I like this book!
Review: I don't care what anyone says, this author just draws me into the plot and I can't put the book down. Yes, she does seem to have the men in her stories become weak and worthless, but I love how she tells the story. There are quite a few mini-plots that are intertwined and yet very light and easy to read.
I highly recommend this book

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Summary: Can't help it! I like this book!
Review: I don't care what anyone says, this author just draws me into the plot and I can't put the book down. Yes, she does seem to have the men in her stories become weak and worthless, but I love how she tells the story. There are quite a few mini-plots that are intertwined and yet very light and easy to read.
I highly recommend this book

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Summary: Pure enjoyment...
Review: I'm giving this four instead of five stars because it's absolutely a blast of a juicy, gossipy "women's" book, which most of us women love; as for the actual writing - it's not Toni Morrison, okay? Indeed, as one reviewer below has written, it's a little disconcerting when Americans don't speak like Americans. We don't use expressions like "the lot of them" and "I'm off to the store," etc. - things like that. You have to wonder - don't these famous writers get edited?

Still - this is a much more fun potboiler/soap opera than (ick) Danielle Steele, as another reviewer recommended. Danielle Steele's adjectives are, typically: "fabulous" - "fantastic" - "incredible" - "marvelous." As they say, never underestimate the reading taste of the American public! As far as I'm concerned, Pilcher is right up (or down) there with Danielle Steele. But Maeve Binchy was recommended to me years ago by a highly erudite librarian who read everything from Shakespeare to Joyce. Thus, when Tara Road came my way in the form of an unabridged audio tape read by Jenny Sterlin, I figured I'd take a chance, and man - couldn't get enough of it. It's easy listening, but as smooth as Irish coffee laced with Hagendaas ice cream.

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Summary: An easy, entertaining read...
Review: I've read everything of hers and, honestly, enjoyed this one the most, maybe because it's current and brighter than some of her more somber tales. I flew through this during my summer vacation and found it a very satisfying read. She's a fantastic storyteller. Enjoy!

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Summary: Loved it until the end!
Review: Ria was a wonderful character. A great wife, mother and friend to everyone around her. I found it to be a shame that her friends weren't as loyal to her. But because of all of the circumstances that she finds herself in, she is stronger and wiser in the end. It left me longing for a sequel. Everything seemed to come to a halt rather abruptly without resolution. That is the reason that I only gave it a 4 instead of a 5 star rating.

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Summary: I loved this book
Review: The characters are so rich and life like. I couldn't get enough, even though I was sleep deprived from staying up late to read!