MAEVE BINCHY TARA ROAD ECHOES WHITETHORN WOODS &

ECHOES  Maeve Binchy latest tale of love and lust among the hills of Ireland features a young couple struggling to overcome class differences and a small town;s judging eyes.  Clare the daughter of shopkeeper, befriended  David the son of a doctor when they were both children.  When they meet again while atending college in Dublin they fall head over heals in love.  Circumstanctances coon force them to return to small town Ireland, where they must find a way to keep their love alive amidst family quarreos and local gossip.

SCARLET FAMILY  Two Platonic friends, Cathy Scarlett and Tom Feather open a swanky catering business in contemporary Dubloin.  Cathy has problems with the class differences between her husband, altruistic lawyer Neil, and her own blue=collar parents.  Tom is frustrated because his lovrly girlfriend is more interested in her modeling career than in committing to him in her modaling career that in committing to him.  When Tom's twin 9-year old cousin find themselves homeless Cahty's parents went up taking them in, further complicating the friends lives.

TARA ROADS An American woman whose son has just died and an Irishwoman whose husband loves her trade house for a year. 

WHITETHORN WOODS When a new Highway threatens to bypass the town of Rossmore and cute through Whitethorn Woods, it will also destroy St. Anns Well, where people have been coming for generations to share their dreams and offer their prayers.  Some believe the well to be a place of true spiritual power; other think it's a mere magnet for superstitions.