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    Dusty's Winter: from The Maeve Binchy Writers' Club
    Dusty's Winter: from The Maeve Binchy Writers' Club
    Dusty's Winter: from The Maeve Binchy Writers' Club
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    Dusty's Winter: from The Maeve Binchy Writers' Club

    By Maeve Binchy

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    Dusty grows up caring for her family, and, once she is old enough to organize her own affairs, she takes great care to move out of her parents’ home. Soon, Dusty is able to accomplish a great deal: she works long hours and is made senior partner at her firm, she keeps her own flat, and she falls hopelessly and irresponsibly in love with a married man. But, when her father telephones to report some disturbing news, Dusty must return home for the winter. There, heartbroken but still dutiful, Dusty finally reunites with her oldest friends.      
     
    First published in the US as part of her encouraging book of missives to aspiring writers, The Maeve Binchy Writers’ Club, “Dusty’s Winter” is essential Maeve. Inspiring and down-to-earth, her stories are full of the stuff of everyday life. Ireland’s “best-loved writer of her generation,” Maeve Binchy often wrote about ordinary life in small-town Ireland, and she is fondly remembered for the warmth and generosity of her prose.
     
    Maeve Binchy has received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Book Awards in 1999 and the Irish PEN/A.T. Cross Award in 2007 and is the author of many bestselling books including Maeve’s Times, Chestnut Street, and A Week in Winter.
     
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    Release dateFeb 2, 2016
    ISBN9781101972762
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      Dusty's Winter - Maeve Binchy

      Maeve Binchy

      Maeve Binchy is the author of numerous bestselling books, including her most recent, Maeve’s Times, Chestnut Street, A Week in Winter, and Minding Frankie, as well as Circle of Friends and Tara Road, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Married to Gordon Snell, she lived in Dalkey, Ireland, until her death in 2012.

      www.maevebinchy.com

      ALSO BY MAEVE BINCHY

      FICTION

      Light a Penny Candle

      Echoes

      The Lilac Bus

      Firefly Summer

      Silver Wedding

      Circle of Friends

      The Copper Beach

      The Glass Lake

      Evening Class

      Tara Road

      Scarlet Feather

      Quentins

      Nights of Rain and Stars

      Whitethorn Woods

      Heart and Soul

      Minding Frankie

      A Week in Winter

      Chestnut Street

      NONFICTION

      Aches & Pains

      The Maeve Binchy Writers’ Club

      Maeve’s Times: In Her Own Words

      SHORT STORIES

      This Year It Will Be Different

      The Return Journey

      Dusty’s Winter

      from The Maeve Binchy Writers’ Club

      Maeve Binchy

      A Vintage Short

      Vintage Books

      A Division of Penguin Random House LLC

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      Copyright © 1994 by Maeve Binchy

      All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published as a part of The Maeve Binchy Writers’ Club in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 1996.

      Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

      The Cataloging-in-Publication Data for The Maeve Binchy Writers’ Club is available from the Library of Congress.

      Vintage eShort ISBN 9781101972762

      Series cover design by Joan Wong

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      About the Author

      Also by Maeve Binchy

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      Copyright

      Dusty’s Winter

      Finding your voice…means finding a way to write that is comfortable for you. It’s finding the method to tell your story that seems natural.

      —Maeve Binchy

      Dusty’s Winter

      She had been born in 1966, when Dusty Springfield was top of the pops, so that was what they called her. It was almost impossible to believe that her mother had once listened to pop records and cared enough about them to name her only daughter after a female vocalist. Especially since her mother was nearly forty at the time and had not expected a little Dusty, or a little anything, to join their nice, neat family of two boys who were eleven and ten. Nowadays the family was much too sensible to call their children after pop stars. She couldn’t imagine her brothers choosing names like Bono or Meat Loaf. Yet that was what it must have been like. A bit racy, really, not in step with their nice, safe, ordinary life. Dusty often wondered what she would fill in if she were asked to do a

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