Heart and Soul - Maeve Binchy

With the insight, humor, and compassion fans have come to expect from her, Binchy tells a story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new Ireland. nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A story of patients and staff, family, and friends who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old Ireland and the new. nDr.

Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. She has plenty on her plate already--two difficult adult daughters and the unwanted attentions of her ex-husband--but she assembles a wonderfully diverse staff devoted to helping their demanding, often difficult patients. n nBefore long the clinic is established as an essential part of the community, and Clara must decide whether or not to leave a place where lives are saved, courage is rewarded, and humor and optimism triumph over greed and self-pity.

n nGood-hearted and entertaining.... Offers many honest pleasures. --The Washington Postn