Silver Wedding — Maeve Binchy

An occasion to celebrate, when Desmond and Deirdre Doyle must gather family and friends around them in remembrance of the twenty-five years of marriage they've shared.

A moment of reckoning as an uneasy couple is forced to face a hapless daughter still struggling to become a nun ... a son who prefers the bleak family farm in Ireland to London ... the once best man, now Desmond's boss ... Deirdre's bridesmaid, now a successful career woman ... and their priest with his guilty secret.

A time of transformation for their eldest daughter, Anna. For only Anna can confront their tarnished lives and find a truth to draw them into a circle of love that might nourish, protect, and finally heal them all.