Who is Maeve Binchy

To listen to an audiobook on the iPod or the iPhone can be as much fun as listening to MP3 files with your favorite singer or band:

Included originally as a bonus track within the Maeve Binchy audiobook, "Nights of Rain and Stars", here Maeve talks about hearing her work on audio, narrated by her cousin and friend Kate Binchy.

Maeve Binchy was born in County Dublin and was educated at the Holy Child convent in Killiney and at University College, Dublin. After a spell as a teacher in various girls' schools, she joined the Irish Times, for which she wrote feature articles and columns. Her first novel, Light A Penny Candle, was published in 1982, and since then she has written more than a dozen novels and short story collections, each one of them bestsellers. Several have been adapted for cinema and television, most notably Circle of Friends in 1995. The film Tara Road is in production. Maeve Binchy was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award at the British Book Awards in 1999. She is married to the writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell.

Download the interview with Maeve Binchy here (free)
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Maeve Binchy Novels

- Light a Penny Candle (1982)
- The Lilac Bus (1984)
- Echoes (1985)
- Firefly Summer (1987)
- Silver Wedding (1988)
- Circle of Friends (1990)
- The Copper Beech (1992)
- The Glass Lake (1994)
- Evening Class (1996)
- Tara Road (1998)
- Scarlet Feather (2000)
- Quentins (2002)
- Nights of Rain and Stars (2004)
- Whitethorn Woods (2006)
- Heart and Soul (2008)

Maeve Binchy Short story collections

- Victoria Line, Central Line (London Transports)
- Dublin 4
- This Year It Will Be Different
- Return Journey (1998)
- Return Journey and other Stories