This Year It Will Be Different

<p><b>''There''s nobody like Binchy for warming the cockles, and this collection of Christmas stories warms them to white heat'' Kate Saunders, <i>The Times</i></b><br><br>Christmas: a time of year when emotions run high and long-held secrets can unexpectedly surface...<br><br><i>This Year It Will Be Different</i> powerfully evokes the lives of wives, husbands, children, friends and lovers. As the festivities take hold, there are step-families grappling with exes; long-married couples faced with in-law problems; a wandering husband choosing between the other woman and his wife; a child caught up in a grown-up tug-of-war.<br><br>Filled with Maeve BInchy''s unique warmth, wit and storytelling genius, this collection is the perfect festive treat.<br><br><b>''We are all in her pages, all of us: mothers, daughters, fathers, sons, husbands, wives, children, friends, lovers ... It is this combination of Maeve''s understanding of what it is to be human, and how to cope with life, that makes he