Ridge’s deafness doesn’t impede their relationship or their music.

She finds out after the fact that Ridge already has a long-distance girlfriend, Maggie-and that he's deaf. The two begin a songwriting partnership that grows into something more once Sydney dumps Hunter and decides to crash with Ridge and his two roommates while she gets back on her feet. While music student Sydney is watching her neighbor Ridge play guitar on his balcony across the courtyard, Ridge is watching Sydney’s boyfriend, Hunter, secretly make out with her best friend on her balcony. Hoover is a master at writing scenes from dual perspectives. Sydney and Ridge make beautiful music together in a love triangle written by Hoover ( Losing Hope, 2013, etc.), with a link to a digital soundtrack by American Idol contestant Griffin Peterson. While Binchy’s stories are sketchier than usual, perhaps understandably rushed, her fans will find solace as hearts mend and relationships sort themselves out one last time. And a clairvoyant librarian in love with a married man comes for a week to recover from her broken heart and avoid her second sight. A retired girls’ school principal receives the Stoneybridge vacation as a retirement gift she refuses to enjoy. A husband and wife, whose lives together revolve around entering contests, consider their week at Stone House a disappointing consolation prize compared to the trip to Paris they didn’t win. The heir to a Swedish accounting firm, who has set his father’s expectations above his own love of music, comes to Stoneybridge to look up a musician friend. Married doctors come for a respite from their crippling if unwarranted sense of responsibility for the terrible deaths they have witnessed.

A famous American actor takes advantage of a missed flight connection to escape the trappings of stardom for a week.

Together, they get the place ready for the first week of paying guests: 34-year-old nurse Winnie arrives trapped into a vacation with her boyfriend’s sophisticated, disapproving mother.

To run the business end, Chicky hires her niece Orla, whose life in London has soured. Soon, Rigger is morally reformed and in love. To help renovate Stone House, she hires her childhood friend Nuala’s son, Rigger, whose history of delinquency has made Nuala desperate to remove him from Dublin, where she’s raised him as a single mother. The beloved, prolific Binchy’s posthumous last novel is classic Binchy ( Minding Frankie, 2011, etc.), peeking into the lives of characters from various walks of life brought together at a newly opened inn on the West Coast of Ireland.Īfter 20 years in America and pretending she’s been widowed by an American husband she never actually married, Chicky returns to her hometown of Stoneybridge to turn an elderly spinster’s run-down cliffside mansion into an inn.

A week in winter binchy