- School & Library Binding
- Publisher: San Val (June 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0613292847
- ISBN-13: 978-0613292849
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 11 x 3.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 240 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,906,927 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Binchy makes you laugh, cry and care. Her warmth and sympathy render the daily struggles of ordinary people heroic and turn storytelling into art.—San Francisco Chronicle
From the Paperback edition.
From the Paperback edition.
Book Description
In these 22 stories, Binchy captures the intimate life dramas of several contemporary women who share a common London commute. From a woman's affair with a married man to a secretary's shocking secret life, these tales explore the pulse of every woman's heart.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
This Work Has Made Me Into a Binchy Fan Overnight,
By paisleymonsoon (Tulsa, Oklahoma) - See all my reviews
This review is from: London Transports (Audio Cassette)
I had never read anything by Maeve Binchy before this. After I had Lasik surgery on my eyes, I couldn't read for the first week, so I checked out this book-on-tape from the library thinking that if I didn't like her writing, I could just turn off the tape and return it to the library. However, this collection of stories was brilliant. Also, Kate Binchy is a wonderful reader. She pauses at all the right moments to allow you to ponder what you've just heard.LONDON TRANSPORTS is a collection of 22 stories that you'll want to ravenously devour. The stories seem to be just a page in someone's life. However, they leave a lasting impression on your mind. The twist in the stories are not the conventional type; the twist is the way that the character thinks and handles the situations that are thrown at them. Some of the more memorable stories includes a 28-year-old virgin who goes to a sex shop to find a manual for people who've never had sex. Because she's embarrassed, she says that she's a nun looking for information for her 28-year-old virgin neice. Another story has a young woman looking for an apartment and finding an amazing apartment belonging to Marigold, a wheelchair-ridden gold-digger. But the apartment is so amazing that the young woman doesn't care that Marigold may take everything that has ever belonged to her. Maeve Binchy has a gift for painfully realistic character creation. I imagine her sitting on park benches and making up stories about the people who walk by her. One thing that struck me as odd is that almost every story assumes that everyone in London is having an extra-marital affair. Maybe I'm naive to think and hope that this isn't based in reality. However, according to an Irish co-worker who happens to be a distant cousin of Maeve Binchy, Maeve and her husband live in separate countries. What does this mean about their own fidelity? I can only guess. I'll definitely be reading more of Binchy's works after this. I can hardly wait to start.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Poignant short stories,
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This review is from: London Transports (Mass Market Paperback)
Maeve Binchy is a master at creating interesting characters and sketching out plots. In this book, she does it 22 times and manages to make each story contain a universal truth or moral. The main characters either remain blissfully unaware of the truth they are illustrating or have an "ah hah!" moment by the end of the story. The frustrating part of the short story genre is that readers would often like to hear more about the characters and see the plots more fully developed. Her novels, which knit together disparate characters into a pleasing whole, are more appealing to this reader, but if you enjoy Binchy, this is still worth a read.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Mediocre,
By "ckeitz" (Manhasset, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: London Transports (Mass Market Paperback)
It was the type of book that you started reading but if something else more exciting came along you could put it down and decide to return to it later.That says to me not a great book
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