With the insight, humor, and compassion we have come to expect from her, Maeve Binchy tells a story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new Ireland.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 already8212;two difficult adult daughters and the unwanted attentions of her ex-husband8212;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. Heart and Soul is Maeve Binchy at her storytelling best.
An Irish heart clinic is the setting for Binchy's latest feel-good novel, which is packed with richly-drawn secondary characters who bring the action and emotion to life. Dr. Clara Casey has been charged with getting the clinic on its feet, despite a lack of significant funding, and she fills the hospital's halls with an assortment of exuberant, dedicated employees who gradually infect the grumpy patients with their infectious cheer. Soon, Dr. Casey must consider whether to extend her temporary stay, now that she and the clinic have become an integral part of the community.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres, Romance, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Family + Friendship, Human Qualities + Behavior, General, Peoples + Cultures, Society + Social Issues, Types of Characters, Contemporary, Love + Relationships + Sex, Settings, Conflicts + Dualities
- Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
- Pages: 417
- Language: English
- Format: hardcover
- Release Date: February 17, 2009
- Date Published: February 17, 2009
- Author: Maeve Binchy