"By the time the bouzoki players start up on the last page, you’ll feel you’ve known these people all your life." The Seattle Times "Engaging…Binchy’s fans will enjoy this summery page-turner." Publishers Weekly "Satisfying and comforting." Columbus Dispatch "The sort of book you should take with you on a trip to the Greek islands." The Boston Globe

Nights Of Rain And Stars
Maeve Binchy

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In a tiny Greek seaside village, tourists enter a hilltop taverna, alone and in pairs, for a casual lunch. But a sudden tragedy in the harbor below brings them together, changing perfect strangers into unlikely friends as their lives begin to entwine.

In the days that follow their paths continue to cross and the secrets each carries begin to unfold. Fiona left her nursing career in Ireland to be with the man everyone thinks is wrong for her. Elsa fled Germany and her television career once she learned what the man she loves had hidden from her. Thomas mourns his failed marriage and misses his young son in California while David yearns to reconcile with his family in England without having to go into the family business. Chance has brought them together in the middle of their separate journeys, and together they will find new ways of looking at the lives they left behind.

Signet, July 2005
368 pages ISBN: 0451214463
Paperback
$9.99