The Builders [Kindle Edition]

Maeve Binchy (Author)

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Product Description

Original short fiction by a beloved best-selling author on her best topic relationships. Charming novella from a masterful writer on the power of family secrets. Nan Ryan lives by herself at 14 Chestnut Road. When builders arrive to fix a deserted house next door, everyone expects the worst. But when the handsome workman looks to Nan to help unravel the mystery of the previous residents' disappearance, a strange relationship develops. With family dynamics and crooked developers in the wings, things are about to get very messy...

About the Author

Maeve Binchy is the author of "Whitethorn Woods, Nights of Rain and Stars, Quentins, Scarlet Feather," and many other bestselling novels. She lives with her husband, writer Gordon Snell.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 125 KB
• Print Length: 93 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1934848166
• Publisher: Gemma (May 1, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002A7WVNU
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,178 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Travel > Europe > Ireland
  • #2 in Books > Travel > Europe > Ireland

More About the Author

Maeve Binchy is the author of numerous best-selling books, including Nights of Rain and Stars, Quentins, Scarlet Feather, Circle of Friends, and Tara Road, which was an Oprah's Book Club selection. She has written for Gourmet; O, The Oprah Magazine; Modern Maturity; and Good Housekeeping, among other publications. She and her husband, Gordon Snell, live in Dalkey, Ireland, and London.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

120 of 122 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars $9 for 87 tiny pages, February 14, 2007

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M. C. Williams (Birmingham, AL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Builders (Open Door S.) (Paperback)

I am also an avid Maeve Binchy fan but am returning this pamphlet unread in protest. I have learned that this "novella" is part of the Open Door Adult Literacy series. These original stories are limited to 10,000 words, with simple language and short sentences. While this is a valuable series, purchasers of The Builders need to understand what they are purchasing.

93 of 95 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars DID ANYONE GET THE NAME OF THAT MASKED MAN??, January 18, 2007

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Red Rock Bookworm (St. George Utah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Builders (Open Door S.) (Paperback)

I am an avid reader of Maeve Binchy and have always loved her novels but must admit that I was really disappointed with this book. The reasons for my disappointment are many.....
(1) At 87 pages, this hardly qualifies as a novel.

(2) At the Amazon price of $9.00+ for the book....the reader is paying over ten cents a page.......and not getting much for the money either in quality OR quantity.

(3) The story was mediocre at best and might have fared a little
better if it had been published with 2 or 3 other tales held together with a common thread (like London Transports or The Lilac Bus).

I would say that this book is a waste of your time as well as your money, but the book is so short it only takes about a half an hour to read from cover to cover.....so I guess the time element has to be dismissed.
(1-1/2 stars)

61 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MAEVE BINCHY NEVER DISAPPOINTS HER FANS, September 3, 2006

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Jacqueline M. Zarzycki "jackie z" (Detroit, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Builders (Open Door S.) (Paperback)

Delightful story of a older woman living alone with three grown adult children that basically ignore her, or use her, they don't see her as a person separate from their mother, and neither does she until she meets the builders that come to fix her neighbors house, than things change for the better.

We could all learn from this story as a mother and a daughter.