Silver Wedding

by Maeve Binchy (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.23

  A silver wedding usually means a family gathering - difficult occasions at the best of times. But for the Doyles it will be more difficult than most, for each of them is keeping up a front. The author also wrote The Lilac Bus and Light a Penny Candle.

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $4.17

  Desmond and Deirdre Doyle will have been married for twenty-five years in October. It falls to the Doyles' eldest daughter, Anna, to decide how best to commemorate her parents' Silver Wedding. No use asking her sister Helen, living in her London convent, or her brother Brendan, who has chosen another form of exile on a bleak farm in the West of Ireland. But it is unthinkable not to have a party, even though for the Doyles, family occasions are more difficult than for most. For each of them is keeping up a front, nursing a secret wound, or smarting over a hidden betrayal. And as the day draws nearer, so the tension mounts, until finally the guests gather at the party itself...

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $4.17

  This is a collection of six interlinked stories about a family preparing for the parent's silver wedding anniversary and the skeletons this drags from the cupboard. Gradually, as the stories develop, it becomes obvious that the marriage is far from happy and the anniversary itself a sham. Maeve Binchy also wrote Light a Penny Candle , Echoes , Firefly Summer , Dublin and London Transport .

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $10.81

  Desmond and Deirdre Doyle will have been married for twenty-five years in October. It falls to the Doyles' eldest daughter, Anna, to decide how best to commemorate her parents' Silver Wedding. No use asking her sister Helen, living in her London convent, or her brother Brendan, who has chosen another form of exile on a bleak farm in the West of Ireland. But it is unthinkable not to have a party, even though for the Doyles, family occasions are more difficult than for most. For each of them is keeping up a front, nursing a secret wound, or smarting over a hidden betrayal. And as the day draws nearer, so the tension mounts, until finally the guests gather at the party itself...