Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband,
Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was
happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he
was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend.
By a chance phone call, Ria meets Marilyn, a woman from New
England unable to come to terms with her only son's death
and now separated from her husband. The two women exchange
houses for the summer with extraordinary consequences, each
learning that the other has a deep secret that can never be
revealed.
Drawn into lifestyles vastly differing from their own, at
first each resents the news of how well the other is
getting on. Ria seems to have become quite a hostess,
entertaining half the neighborhood, which at first
irritates the reserved and withdrawn Marilyn, a woman who
has always guarded her privacy. Marilyn seems to have
become bosom friends with Ria's children, as well as with
Colm, a handsome restaurateur, whom Ria has begun to miss
terribly. At the end of the summer, the women at last meet
face-to-face. Having learned a great deal, about themselves
and about each other, they find that they have become,
firmly and forever, good friends.
A moving story rendered with the deft touch of a master
artisan, Tara Road is Maeve Binchy at her very best—utterly
beautiful, hauntingly unforgettable, entirely original, and
wholly enjoyable.
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