Every Friday night Tom Fitzgerald's lilac-coloured minibus is a meeting place for the same cast of seven, who use it to travel home from Dublin to spend the weekend in Rathdoon. Disparate characters, who embark at an anonymous pick-up point, each one has an inner life unknown to his or her fellow passengers...

These eight short stories, all linked by the common theme of the lilac bus, are woven together by the warmth and compassion that typifies Maeve Binchy's writing.

Maeve Binchy was born in Co. Dublin and went to school at Holy Child Convent in Killiney. Several of her books have been adapted for television and cinema, most notably Circle of Friends. Quentins, Light a Penny Candle and Nights of Rain and Stars are among her novels available as Chivers Audiobooks.

Kate Binchy's stage appearances include Factory Girls, Deep Blue Sea, and Juno and the Paycock at the Lyceum. On TV she has been seen in Doctors, Trial & Retribution V, Fair City, Father Ted and Poirot, while on radio she's been heard in over 500 plays. Her films include Mrs. Dalloway and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne. Kate is Maeve Binchy's cousin.