A review by knitter22
A Few of the Girls by Maeve Binchy

2.0

I'm sorry I read this collection as it taints my memories of the Maeve Binchy novels I have enjoyed. Her widowed husband, Gordon Snell, does tell us in the beginning that these are some of the stories Maeve was always writing, but my main impression was that there were reasons she hadn't published these while she was alive. Some of them are so short and undeveloped that I would hesitate to even call them stories, and some end so abruptly that I pictured the doorbell ringing, Maeve getting up to answer it, and shoving the unfinished story into a desk drawer. She might have worked on these and edited them into her usual warm-hearted storytelling if she had lived, but I did not enjoy reading her first drafts.