01934cam a2200397 i 4500 623862810 TxAuBib 20090216120000.0 081027s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008046738 9780307265791 030726579X (OCoLC)232129565 DLC eng rda DLC BTCTA BAKER YDXCP UPZ IH9 TxAuBib rda Binchy, Maeve, 1940-2012. Heart and soul / Maeve Binchy. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 417 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new in Ireland. Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. She has plenty on her plate already--two difficult adult daughters and the unwanted attentions of her ex-husband--but she assembles a wonderfully diverse staff devoted to helping their demanding, often difficult patients. Before long the clinic is established as an essential part of the community, and Clara must decide whether or not to leave a place where lives are saved, courage is rewarded, and humor and optimism triumph over greed and self-pity. 20090216. Dublin (Ireland) Fiction. Heart failure clinics Fiction. Women physicians Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Separated women Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Women executives Fiction. Ireland Fiction. Medical novels. Domestic fiction. Fiction. TXKPL