Ria lived on <strong>Tara Road</strong> in Dublin with her dashing husband Danny and their twochildren. She fully believed she was happily married right up unti... » 

Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband Danny and their twochildren. She fully believed she was happily married right up until the dayDanny told her he was leaving her to be with his young pregnant girlfriend. Bya chance phone call Ria meets Marilyn a woman from New England unable to cometo terms with her only sons death and now separated from her husband. The twowomen exchange houses for the summer with extraordinary consequences eachlearning that the other has a deep secret that can never be revealed. Drawninto lifestyles vastly differing from their own at first each resents the newsof how well the other is getting on. Ria seems to have become quite a hostessentertaining half the neighborhood which at first irritates the reserved andwithdrawn Marilyn a woman who has always guarded her privacy. Marilyn seems tohave become bosom friends with Rias children as well as with Colm a handsomerestaurateur whom Ria has begun to miss terribly. At the end of the summerthe women at last meet facetoface. Having learned a great deal aboutthemselves and about each other they find that they have become firmly andforever good friends. A moving story rendered with the deft touch of a masterartisan Tara Road is Maeve Binchy at her very best utterly beautifulhauntingly unforgettable entirely original and wholly enjoyable. From theHardcover edition. «