A review by tidybex
Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy

2.0

I must admit that if this hadn't been a book group read, I would never have picked it up. Just goes to show that you should trust your instincts. To start with I enjoyed the short story concept; I thought it would be a great book to just pick up when you had a few moments. However, the short story concept tired about a quarter way through the book. By the time I reached half way, I had to steel myself to carry on reading! Some of the stories seemed to cut short as soon as they got interesting, which was a shame, whilst others seemed to have no real point at all; the fact that the book was published after the author's death seems quite telling. Sorry Maeve, you will never know how happy I was to finally finish this book; it became quite a chore.