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This year it will be different / Maeve Binchy.

By: Binchy, Maeve Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2007Edition: [New ed.]Description: 261 p. ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781741753547 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Irish -- Australia -- Fiction | Irish fiction -- Australia | Irish fiction | Australia | Christmas StoriesGenre/Form: Short stories | Short stories | Short stories. | Short stories. | General fiction | Christmas stories. DDC classification: 823.914

Contents:

Travelling hopefully -- A typical Irish Christmas -- What is happiness? -- The best inn in town -- The civilised Christmas -- Pulling together -- The Christmas barramundi -- A hundred milligrams -- The first step of Christmas -- The ten snaps of Christmas -- Season of fuss -- Christmas timing -- How about you? -- Christmas present -- The white trolley -- The feast of Stephen -- Affair before Christmas -- The Christmas child.

Summary: Aboard a plane bound for Australia, two strangers find themselves confessing their fears and laughing each other into courage; Nick and Janet meet at the Sydney Fish Markets ... everything seems perfect, what could go wrong? Ethel is assured by her family that this year the usual massive Christmas organisation won't be left entirely up to her, that this year it will be different. Warm humorous, sad and happy, this delightful Christmas collection, set in Australia and around the world, shows Maeve Binchy weaving her storytelling magic. Families, friends, lovers and the lonely - Binchy draws us into their lives with wisdom and generosity. After reading This Year it will be Different·, you'll want to visit them all over again.

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Previously published: 1995.

"With new stories"--Cover.

Aboard a plane bound for Australia, two strangers find themselves confessing their fears and laughing each other into courage; Nick and Janet meet at the Sydney Fish Markets ... everything seems perfect, what could go wrong? Ethel is assured by her family that this year the usual massive Christmas organisation won't be left entirely up to her, that this year it will be different. Warm humorous, sad and happy, this delightful Christmas collection, set in Australia and around the world, shows Maeve Binchy weaving her storytelling magic. Families, friends, lovers and the lonely - Binchy draws us into their lives with wisdom and generosity. After reading This Year it will be Different·, you'll want to visit them all over again.

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