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Garden Party, The & Other Stories
Garden Party, The & Other Stories
Oct 30, 2024 11:24 AM

Author:Maeve Binchy,Niamh Cusack,Dervla Kirwan,Stella McCusker,Doreen Hepburn

Garden Party, The & Other Stories

Maeve Binchy is one of Britain’s most popular and bestselling authors, and this collection of four stories from the BBC Radio 4 archive shows her at her most insightful and imaginative. In The Garden Party, Helen envies her neighbour Debbie Kennedy’s garden – and her life – but discovers that things are not always as they seem; while The Special Sale sees lonely Yvonne arranging a special lunch for her friend Frank and his children on the day after Christmas. The Sensible Celebration finds Lorna about to throw a small party to celebrate the decade gone by: but as she plans, she starts to think about her life, and her marriage. Finally, in Dolly’s Mother, the beauty, grace and efficiency of her perfect parent have always made Dolly feel inferior – until the day of her sixteenth birthday. These four stories, never collected together in book form and unique to audio, are read by acclaimed actors Niamh Cusack, Dervla Kirwan, Doreen Hepburn and Stella McCusker.

1 CD. 57 mins.

Reviews

Dirty realism from the godfather of lowlife literature

—— Uncut

The most entertaining of American writers, almost a new Mark Twain...his words can travel on through time

—— Daily Mail

The wittiest man since Groucho Marx and the wisest since Karl Marx

—— The Times

Imbued with the innocence, empathy, and kindness that always seemed central to Vonnegut's sensibility

—— Lionel Shriver , Financial Times

(Vonnegut) was a splendid preacher of American populism at its most radical...always funny and sometimes refreshingly vulgar

—— Independent

The best of these unpublished pieces are as mad, bitter, hilarious and, in their healthy disrespect not only for 'Get Tough America' but for humanity in general, as startlingly timely as the best of his output

—— Daily Telegraph

You should buy this book

—— Spectator

Dark, funny and disturbing

—— London Review of Books
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