"If you haven’t read any Maeve Binchy yet, this is where I’d start."
Put a writer on a bus, and I guarantee they’ll spend the journey eavesdropping on their fellow passengers and inventing stories about where they’re going. The Lilac Bus is eavesdropping in book form: a delicious slice of life in Ireland in the 1980s, recounting the stories of seven passengers who travel from Dublin to Rathdoon every Friday evening. Each has their own secrets and their own problems, and Maeve Binchy unravels them in the most perfect way. The characterisation is sublime, and although life is very different forty years on, the themes of small town gossip, relationships and betrayal are bang up to date. If you haven’t read any Maeve Binchy yet, this is where I’d start.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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Every Friday without fail, the lilac bus transports the same seven people from the bustle of Dublin to spend the weekend in the quaint village of Rathdoon.
Each passenger has their own reason for making the trip. What is Judy hiding? Why is Rupert so unwilling to return home? And why has driver Tom orchestrated the lilac bus's trip in the first place?
As friendships are forged and secrets revealed, it soon becomes clear that there's more to these unsuspecting characters than meets the eye . . .
The Lilac Bus features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction, Fiction
The Lilac Bus is available in Paperback
The Lilac Bus was written by Maeve Binchy and published by Arrow Books Ltd an imprint of Cornerstone
The Lilac Bus has 243 pages
£8.99
