Minding Frankie/Maeve Binchy/383 pages

Minding Frankie is classic Maeve Binchy. She specializes in telling the stories of the people of Dublin. She's laid the groundwork for this book with many of her others and now the characters of those books can come together and form a perfect little community to help Noel raise his daughter Frankie. Noel is an unassuming drunk loner who finds out that he has a daughter on the way and will have to raise her without her mother. He won't be on his own, though. His newly discovered American cousin Emily has brought her no nonsense but caring ways to this little part of Dublin. She manages to help everyone by finding ways for them to help each other.