Maeve's Times by Binchy, Maeve -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Contents Note on Maeve Binchy and The Irish Times Introduction by Gordon Snell SIXTIES

School Outing Just Plane Bores But Does Anybody Care? A Turkish Bath Life as a Waitress Back to School Thinking About Underwear Down Under The Nonsense of Etiquette

SEVENTIES

The World’s Greatest Lies About Women Baby Blue Women Are Fools – Mary Women Are Fools – Lorraine Women Are Fools – Sandy Pageantry and Splendour at Westminster for the Royal Wedding How to Speak Proper Who Sent this Postcard? Holiday Romance I Was a Winter Sport Keeping Faith with My Dear, Dear Dublin The Couple Who Behaved Perfectly A Snatch at Some Happiness Vanity of Vanity, All is Vanity A Nice, Traditional, Normal Sort of Patrick’s Day The Day We Nearly Wrote a Sex Book A Week of Self-Improvement Violet Anna’s Abortion Idiotic Queues Bathroom Joggers Happy Hypochondria The Man in South Anne Street A Magic Meeting Do It Honestly or Not At All

TWO NEWS REPORTS

Hope and Bitter Memories Numbed Dover Waits for Lists of the Dead

EIGHTIES

The Right to Die in Your Own Home When Beckett Met Binchy Fit for a Queen Contraceptive Conversation The Happy Couple Encounters at the Airport Up in the Clouds with Charlie Haughey Election Brings Life to an Ageing Society Maeve’s Operation: The Whole Story Keeping Cruise off the Roads is New Priority Develop Your Own Style One Eye on Bargains, One Eye on Alsatians A Tipperary Robin Hood Maeve on Margaret Thatcher No Fags, No Food – It’s No Fun Being Fergie It Was One of Those Custard Heart Days The Man Who Set Up Office in the Ladies A Royal Romance Spelling Danger from the Start Making a Spectacle of Myself Madam Is Paying?

NINETIES

Even the Presidents Are Getting Younger My Theodora Story Heading for the Hustings Please Don’t Forget to Write Casually Elegant Meets the Mob They’ll Never Let Her Go There Is No Excuse Fear of Falling Off the Wagon Getting It Right at the End For Tired Read Terrible Traveller’s Tales – The Call of the Check-In Desk Love’s Last Day Out A Walk on the Wild Side Peter Panic Attack Little Person! Tiny Person! Fighting February She Didn’t Do So Badly Curmudgeons of Summer The Fall Let’s Talk Gridlock ‘They’ve Gone and Dumped Portillo …’ Mrs Perfect Death in Kilburn Saved by the Wiles of Cupid Just Don’t Ask Bleach Sniffers on My Desk Talking to Various Ships Passing in the Night Sweet Dreams Staving Off the Senior Moments

2000s

Mr Gageby … Another World for the Price of a Cup of Coffee ‘One Up for the Cardigans’ My Part in the Movies Striking a Pose for My Country Ten Things You Must Never Say to Anyone with Arthritis What’s It Like to Have a House Full of Film Crew? Let Me Tell You All About It Will and Kate Show Is Testament to Abiding Allure of the Royals

POSTSCRIPT

Maeve’s Career Timeline Editor’s Acknowledgements About the Author Also By Maeve Binchy Copyright