The Journey — Every Friday night young Ron Fitzgerald’s lilac-colored minibus leaves Dublin for the Irish country town of Rathdoon with seven weekend commuters on board. All of them, from the joking bank porter, Mikey Burns, who plays the buffoon while his brother makes a fortune in the family business, to the rich doctor’s daughter, Dee Burke, who is having a secret affair with a married man, … man, have their reasons for making the journey. The Destination, Rathdoon, is the kind of Irish Village where family histories are shared and scandals don’t stay secret for long. And this weekend, when Tom’s bus pulls in, the riders find the unexpected waiting for them… as each of their very private lives unfolds to reveal a sharp betrayal of the heart, a young man’s crime, and chance for new dreams among the eight intriguing men and women on… The Lilac Bus.
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I love all her books, she has a beautiful way of bringing the people together , and learning about each of these people and then how they interrelate with each other.
Have Benchy’s book are alway comfortable.
I love anything written by Maeve Binchy!
People are getting in touch to say that my latest book reminds them of Maeve Binchy. As a tribute to a novelist I really miss, I’d like to recommend my favourite Maeve Binchy novel, The Lilac Bus. Characters’ lives intertwine on a bus to the country every Friday evening. People who would never normally have gotten to know each other start to form …
The Lilac Bus is a story collection by the late Irish author Maeve Binchy. In the first section, “The Lilac Bus,” all the stories are related. The characters know each other to varying degrees from their encounters on the bus, and in the individual stories, we get to hear the same eventd from their respective, differing perspectives. We learn of …
Her other books are so good but not this one!
Highly recommend this book as I would any Maeve Binchey book.
Binchy always does it right. Have read many of her books. Her characters always entertain me.
Maeve Binchy takes another of her peeks into ordinary lives and makes them extraordinary.
Loved it
Love Maeve Benchey!
Disjointed and unfinished
weak writing
Love all her books!
It seemed that the characters never really truly developed along the way. The concept was ok, but I forced myself to finish thinking that it would get better and there would be more of a story between the characters. It was meh and I was left feeling there was more to the story to tell, only it wasn’t. I did find myself reading the book in an …
I enjoyed the book but was very confused by the ending. It almost seemed to go off as a new story not really connected to the rest of the book.
This book was a somewhat interesting look into the lives of a group of Dubliners who go home on weekends to their small village in a lilac mini-bus. Not as enjoyable as some other Binchey books I have read.
Not one of her best – I really enjoy Binchy so this was disappointing for me but I did read the whole book.
Enjoy this author so looked forward to reading this but found it a big disappointment. Fragmented story never seemed to go anywhere.
There were too many characters. Their stories were incomplete. I would have preferred fewer characters and much more to their stories.