The Lilac Bus

A group of people meet every week - each with their own story to tell. From the no.1 bestselling author of A WEEK IN WINTER - Maeve Binchy at her very best.

Every Friday night, the same seven Dublin workers meet to travel home in Tom Fitzgerald's lilac-coloured minibus. Each of them needs to return regularly to Rathdoon: Nancy Morris, a real 'Miss Mouse', is known for her meanness and has to escape her flatmate's carping; Dee Burke is engrossed in her affair; Kev Kennedy has a side to his character hidden even from his family; Celis Ryan has to face her mother making a drunken exhibition of herself - and Tom has his reasons.

"Touching, gossipy and as warming as a feather bed" -Sunday Telegraph

Read by Kate Binchy
Unabridged: 5 hrs and 36 mins
Abridged: 2 hrs and 53 mins

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