The Builders (Open Door) | 
|  | | | Title: | The Builders (Open Door) | | Author: | Maeve Binchy | | Publisher: | New Island Books | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | January, 2002 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1902602684 / 9781902602684 | | List Price: | $5.93 | | Amazon Price: | $7.39 (via Amazon marketplace seller) | | | |
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Original short fiction by a beloved best-selling author on her best topic relationships. Charming novella from a masterful writer on the power of family secrets. Nan Ryan lives by herself at 14 Chestnut Road. When builders arrive to fix a deserted house next door, everyone expects the worst. But when the handsome workman looks to Nan to help unravel the mystery of the previous residents' disappearance, a strange relationship develops. With family dynamics and crooked developers in the wings, things are about to get very messy...
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Customer Reviews:
• $9 For 87 Tiny Pages 14 February, 2007
I am also an avid Maeve Binchy fan but am returning this pamphlet unread in protest. I have learned that this "novella" is part of the Open Door Adult Literacy series. These original stories are limited to 10,000 words, with simple language and short sentences. While this is a valuable series, purchasers of The Builders need to understand what they are purchasing.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AO4Q76GJ454U2
• Teeny-tiny Book 22 February, 2007
Not worth the money it cost. I read it in 45 minutes or less. If you want a real short read then this is your book. I was disapointed.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AMKXTZTONFY4V
• She Reinvents Herself.. 12 April, 2008
I kept this tidy little book in my purse for just those occasions when I'd have to wait somewhere. During a visit to the doctor, after becoming bored with the golfing and sports magazines, I remembered that I had this little treasure with me.
Nan has worked hard, raising her 3 children alone with a husband who "loved lots of other ladies" until he left her. Now, with adult children who stop by, it seems, only when they need her and want to run her life, her daily world has dwindled to a humdrum existence. That is, until the house next door, empty for 2 years, starts to undergo renovation. Something new to look forward to each day, especially watching the handsome builder, who eventually comes to daily tea. I won't reveal all that ensues, but in the end, Nan becomes a "builder", too, and finds her voice.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1I1FCR9TTK4R4
• Maeve Binchy Never Disappoints Her Fans 03 September, 2006
Delightful story of a older woman living alone with three grown adult children that basically ignore her, or use her, they don't see her as a person separate from their mother, and neither does she until she meets the builders that come to fix her neighbors house, than things change for the better.
We could all learn from this story as a mother and a daughter.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3PKEWQ3WJESJ5
• Did Anyone Get The Name Of That Masked Man?? 19 January, 2007
I am an avid reader of Maeve Binchy and have always loved her novels but must admit that I was really disappointed with this book. The reasons for my disappointment are many.....
(1) At 87 pages, this hardly qualifies as a novel.
(2) At the Amazon price of $9.00+ for the book....the reader is paying over ten cents a page.......and not getting much for the money either in quality OR quantity.
(3) The story was mediocre at best and might have fared a little
better if it had been published with 2 or 3 other tales held together with a common thread (like London Transports or The Lilac Bus).
I would say that this book is a waste of your time as well as your money, but the book is so short it only takes about a half an hour to read from cover to cover.....so I guess the time element has to be dismissed.
(1-1/2 stars)
- Reviewed by customer ID: AN3D3M8MJ07BQ
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