Nights of Rain and Stars

from rosalita

Four tourists, from Germany, America, England and Ireland, are brought together in a tiny village in Greece when a local tragedy upends their travel plans. Each of them is running away from something, and over the course of this slight book we learn their stories. The need to advance four plot li...

from pokarekareana

Maeve Binchy is and has been one of my favourite authors since before I was really old enough to be reading her work. Yes, her work seems to follow a very formulaic pattern of being laced with all things Irish and generally turning out all right in the end, with a few moments of extreme-social-pe...

from hemlokgang

A nice story, as all of Binchy's are. This particular story involves a group of people from different countries who become connected during a stay on Greek island., During the course of their stay, they each learn something important about themselves and about life.

from drebbles

A group of tourists on a small Greek Island are drawn together after they witness a tragedy at sea. Each of them is struggling with personal problems: German Reporter Elsa has quit her job and left her boyfriend after discovering a devastating secret he had kept hidden. Fiona has come to the isla...

from Fliss88

My first novel by Maeve Binchy, and what got me hooked was the book's Mediterranean setting. The story is about four people, all strangers who find themselves together, holidaying in a small Greek costal village. A boating accident throws them all together, and along with the villagers, they mour...