Dolly's Mother 007
Just a Day 023
Fay's New Uncle 047
My Own Problem 065
The only thing that matters is 083
Blind Date with Joyce 103
Liberty Green 119
Insomnia Treatment 135
Ranger Teacher's Reward 143
Decisions made in Dublin 159
Incorrect photo caption 175
Star Sullivan 187
Taxi Drivers Are Invisible 197
Father's Day Card 215
The Gift of Dignity 221
Investment 247
Embracing Uncertainty 261
Lillian's Hair 271
Bouquet from Grace 287
Builder 301
Bucket Maguire 315
Older man 343
Philip and the Flower Arrangers 351
Interview Rights 363
By the time we reached Clifden, 375
Women Who Right Injustice 383
Witness 399
Birds' Lottery 409
Madame Magic 423
Don't say anything 435
451 Trying to please you somehow
Seeing the situation clearly 463
Fair Trade 475
Window Flowerbed 485
Finn's Future 499
509 nights a year
Tara's Wooden Horse 523

Translator's Note: If you feel stuck somewhere in your life, 535

Maeve Vinci, who captivated 40 million readers worldwide
A special perspective on our ordinary neighbors!

"A book like a gift from Maeve Binchy to her readers." USA Today

#HealingNovel #IrishNationalWriter #Warmth
#cheerfulness #comfort #dublin #neighborhood

Maeve Binchy, Ireland's national author and world-renowned bestselling author.
The author's novel "Chestnut Street" has been published in Korea, having received much love and attention through the introduction of "A Week in That Winter," "A Night of Rain and Stars," and "A Different Christmas This Year."
This novel, which depicts the lives of friendly neighbors living on Chestnut Street, an ordinary street in Dublin, is a collection of short stories written by Maeve Binchy over several decades.
Maeve Binchy had wanted to compile her short stories set in this fictional street into a book during her lifetime, but passed away in 2012 before she could achieve her goal. In 2014, her husband, children's author Gordon Snell, carried on the author's legacy and published Chestnut Street.
This collection of thirty-seven short stories is filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark warmth, humor, and wisdom, offering readers who have loved the author's uniquely simple and affectionate stories a chance to experience that warmth once again.


Life never goes as planned,
Living with problems that are hard to solve
A cheerful and heartwarming story about ordinary neighbors

Chestnut Street, a horseshoe-shaped street lined with thirty small houses.
The neighbors of this cozy street, which has a small lawn in the middle of the street where the townspeople can gather and even holds a festival once a year, live with their own unresolved problems.
Dolly, a teenage girl living at number 18, is troubled by her mother's always perfect and elegant appearance, which makes her ordinary appearance seem more miserable ("Dolly's Mother"), and Lillian, who works as a hairdresser and supports her entire family at number 5, is about to marry her frugal boyfriend, for whom saving money is the most important thing in life ("Lillian's Hair").
Bucket Maguire, who lives at number 11 and works as a window cleaner, is always busy protecting his son Eddie, who everyone in the neighborhood says is a problem child ("Bucket Maguire"), and the sons of Mitch and Philip, who live at number 22, mistakenly believe that their father is having an affair, but unexpectedly learn the truth ("Witness").


Some people leave Chestnut Street and live in other cities, but still feel a connection to this place.
Sally, who lives a glamorous life as a journalist in London, comes to Dublin, where she spent her childhood and where her best friend Anna lives, for a vacation and discovers Anna's husband's infidelity ("The Gift of Dignity"), and Maureen, who has been raising the child of a man disapproved by her family, visits her mother's house on Chestnut Street twenty years later when her son has become an adult ("A Dublin Decision").

The short stories are set in the 20th century, from the 1950s to the 1990s, but no matter how quickly the times change, the concerns and problems of people living their daily lives do not change much.
Parents and children of different generations have conflicting values ​​about love and marriage, and children are frustrated because their parents worry too much, while parents are frustrated because their children, whom they raised, think they are always right.
Friendships that have lasted for decades can be shaken by unexpected events, and betrayal by loved ones can leave you shedding bitter tears.
These aren't just grand tragedies that happen to me, but rather the various problems and concerns that we all inevitably face from time to time in our lives. Through the hands of Maeve Vinci, an excellent storyteller, they are transformed into exciting and deeply relatable stories.
And as you read each of these thirty-seven wonderful stories, the characters in the novels feel somehow familiar and relatable, and you find yourself rooting for them, hoping for something magical to happen to them, for a surprising solution to appear.


A novel that you can read over and over again on a hard night, keeping it by your bedside.

A quiet night, a time on the border between one day and the next, a time when I am slightly afraid to even comfort my heart that has been tired for the day, a time when worries, pain, and sadness are hiding and watching me from every corner of my lonely room, when I don't want a story that is too heavy or too light, but still need a story that will give me a little strength, when I need a story that gives me hope that there is a hole even in a difficult problem that seems to have no answer, those times, those are the moments when we need Maeve Binchy's warm insight and humor.
At times like that, it would be nice to keep it by the bedside and read it over and over again.
From the translator's note

I know that life doesn't always have a silver lining, but sometimes I crave comfort in a novel that has a heartwarming ending.
There come times when we need a feel-good story about ordinary, good people living a little bit of happiness.
A story like "One Night a Year," where people with nowhere to go meet by chance on New Year's Eve and spend only one day a year together to listen to each other's worries, or a story like "Accepting Uncertainty," where three middle-aged women become housemates based on their own needs and share a neat and peaceful daily life.
When you need a story that seems too good to be true, but you don't want to dismiss it as unreal, when you're tired from a hard day and need some warmth, Maeve Binchy's novel will be a sanctuary where you can briefly rest your mind.


Chestnut Street has all the cute and cheerful elements that make Maeve Vinchy special.
It accurately captures human nature, depicts the arc of each individual's life, and breathes life into the characters.
Vinci leads the story so cleverly that the reader comes to understand even the most unlikable characters.
- [NPR]

Full of kindness, wisdom, and insight into humanity.
It reminds us why Maeve Binchy is undeniably Ireland's most beloved writer.
- [Irish Times]

The lyrical sentences gently move the reader's heart like a lullaby.
A book like a gift that Maeve Binchy left for her readers.
- [USA Today]

Maeve Vinci speaks of human frailty with a generous heart and realistic perspective.
I don't pretend not to see our weaknesses, but I always deeply sympathize with why they have to be that way.

- [Richmond Times-Dispatch]

The more I read, the more I want to read more stories.

- [Book Page]

The author gives us one last chance to look through a special lens at ordinary people struggling with family relationships, twisted romances, and the possibility of a better future.
Vinci's deep thoughts and loving touch that touched all of this will be greatly missed.
- [Publisher's Weekly]

Vinci is famous for creating realistic characters who communicate in ordinary ways in ordinary places.
Many of the author's fans will be lining up to read this book.

- [Booklist]

Maeve Vinci's work continues to inspire and provoke our thoughts.
It's warm and fun at the same time.
- [Woman]

Thanks to Vinci's characteristically empathetic gaze, we feel pity for the weak in the novel and rejoice when the villains are punished.
And I hope that justice will be served to those who continue to do the right thing, even if it means nothing, and to those who have suffered for a long time.
- [Irish Mail on Sunday]