Chestnut Street is a collection of stories about the people who live there. According to her husband, Maeve Binchy had been writing these over the course of 15 years. She had wanted to blend them together into a novel but never got the chance before she died last year. The stories are pure Binchy and are humorous and warm even if they are a bit disjointed from each other. I will miss her voice in literature. The one thing that really stuck in my mind is how many of the marriages in these stories had failed. For a traditional Catholic country, the number of broken homes and single parents seemed really high. Maybe some of that would have changed if Binchy had had the chance to work them into a novel.
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