Dublin 4 - Maeve Binchy

These four stories, set in the heart of Dublin's fashionable Southside, focus on the dilemmas facing ordinary people.

There is - a society hostess who invites her husband's mistress to dinner, a country girl lost in the big city, a reformed drinker beset by temptations and a student grappling with the problem of an unplanned pregnancy.

With her intimate grasp of human feeling and her uncanny ear for dialogue, Maeve Binchy lavishes sympathy and affection on all her characters, brave and foolish alike.