Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy Paperback Book

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Author: Maeve Binchy

Narrator: Bermingham, Sile

Format: Abridged-CD

Publisher: Random House Audible

Published: Feb 2009

Genre: Fiction - General

Retail Price: $29.95

Discs: 5

Synopsis

With the warmth, humor, and compassion we have come to expect from her, Maeve Binchy tells a story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new Ireland.

Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. She has plenty on her plate already—two difficult adult daughters and the unwanted attentions of her exhusband—but she assembles a wonderfully diverse staff devoted to helping their demanding, often difficult patients: the infectiously cheerful nurse; the indispensable office manager who can't quite manage her own life; the Polish girl who's come to Ireland to put a bad love affair firmly in her past and the booming Irish economy in her future; the young doctor who has a special touch with his patients; the physical therapist who undertakes a very different kind of therapy involving a local priest and a stalker.

Before long they manage to establish the clinic as an essential part of the community and Clara must decide whether or not to leave a place where lives are saved, courage is rewarded, and humor and optimism triumph over greed and self-pity.

Heart and Soul is Maeve Binchy at her heartwarming storytelling best.

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Reviews

BookLender review by Julie on 2009-06-09 00:42:56

I believe this might be a great book but found it hard to follow on the CD The woman talked so fast it was hard to keep up with her. I love Marve Binchy Sometimes readers go to fast to enjoy the story and this was one of them Julie