Heart and Soul
Feb 2009 · Sold by Anchor
4.2star
20 reviews
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432
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A story of patients and staff, family, and friends who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old Ireland and the new. • "Good-hearted [and] entertaining." —The Washington Post
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 ex-husband—but she assembles a wonderfully diverse staff devoted to helping their demanding, often difficult patients.
Before long the clinic is established 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.
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 ex-husband—but she assembles a wonderfully diverse staff devoted to helping their demanding, often difficult patients.
Before long the clinic is established 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.
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4.2
20 reviews
Rebecca Rockwood
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December 31, 2020
This book is a fast-paced read with a variety of interesting characters and subplots. The central theme is the opening of a specialty heart clinic based in a Dublin hospital. As the clinic gradually becomes successful, the characters bond and even find love. The book provides insights into the culture of modern Ireland and its relationships with Eastern European immigrants. The book contains a few too many different stories to describe in depth. However, they are concisely summarized and everything is tied up neatly at the end.
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Tess Miller
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October 7, 2015
Love it when Ms. Binchy writes a book and includes some of her old characters. However we meet new ones that we hope to see in books we've yet to read.
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Sandra May
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July 1, 2015
Delightful Binchy, weaving in former books and characters in a charming, happy story.
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About the author
MAEVE BINCHY was born in County Dublin and educated at the Holy Child convent in Killiney and at University College, Dublin. After a spell as a teacher she joined The Irish Times. Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, was published in 1982, and she went on to write more than twenty books, all of them best sellers. Several have been adapted for film and television, most notably Circle of Friends and Tara Road, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. She was married to the writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell for thirty-five years, and died in 2012 at the age of seventy-two.
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