The Return Journey - Short Stories

Zusatztext "Maeve Binchy makes you laugh! cry and care.... Her characters throb with life." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Maeve Binchy is a grand storyteller in the finest Irish tradition--she writes from the heart." -- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) "Maeve Binchy is a master storyteller." -- The New York Times Informationen zum Autor Maeve Binchy was born and educated in Dublin. She is the author of the bestselling books Tara Road , Evening Class , This Year It Will Be Different , The Glass Lake , The Copper Beech , The Lilac Bus , Circle of Friends , Silver Wedding , Firefly Summer , Echoes , Light a Penny Candle , and London Transports , three volumes of short stories, two plays, and a teleplay that won three awards at the Prague Film Festival. She has been writing for The Irish Times since 1969 and lives with her husband, Gordon Snell, in Dublin. Klappentext The Return Journey --a spellbinding trip into the human heart... In these powerful, poignant tales, the New York Times bestselling author of Evening Class and Tara Road once again reveals her unrivaled understanding of matters of the heart. Here are sons and lovers, daughters and strangers, husbands and wives in their infinite variety--powerfully compelling stories of love and loss, revelation and reconciliation. A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip--.An insecure wife clings to the illusion of order, only to discover chaos at the hands of a house sitter who opens the wrong doors--. A pair of star-crossed travelers take each other's bags, and then learn that when you unlock a stranger's suitcase, you enter a stranger's life.-- In their company are many more journeys of hope and discovery--unforgettable slices of life from the incomparable Maeve Binchy. The Wrong Suitcase Annie checked in early. She had come out to the airport in plenty of time. None of this was going to be a hassle. Once she had taken her boarding card and seen the smart new case trundle off with its little tag telling it to go to London Heathrow, she sighed with relief; it was all happening now, nothing could stop it. She was going to have the luxury of really looking at the things in the duty-free shop for once, and maybe trying out a few of the perfumes on her wrist. She might even look at cameras and watches--not buy, but look. Alan was late; he was always late checking in. But he had such a nice smile and looked so genuinely apologetic, nobody seemed to mind. They told him to go straight to the departure gate, and he did--well, more or less. They couldn't expect him to go through that duty-free without buying a bottle of vodka, could they? He had no sign of fuss or confusion; he slipped onto the plane last, but somebody had to come in last. He settled himself easily into his seat in executive class. With the ease of the frequent traveler, he had stowed his briefcase and vodka neatly above, fastened his safety belt in a way that the air hostess could see it was fastened, and he had opened his copy of  Time.  Another business trip begun. Annie smiled with relief when she saw her case on the carousel at London Airport; she always half expected it to be left behind, like she expected the Special Branch men to call her in and ask her business in England and the Customs men to rip the case apart looking for concealed heroin. She was of a fearful nature, but she knew that and said it wasn't a bad way to be because it led to so many nice surprises when these things didn't happen. She took her case and went unscathed through Customs. She followed the signs for the Underground and got onto a train that she thought must be like a lift in the United Nations building: There were people of every nationality under the sun, and all of...

Product details

• Authors: Maeve Binchy
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.06.1999
• EAN: 9780440224594
• ISBN: 978-0-440-22459-4
• No. of pages: 225
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 176 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Dell Paperbacks; Bantam Dell
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature