The Lilac Bus

The Lilac Bus is a collection of interrelated short stories by the writer Maeve Binchy, first published in 1984. The stories were later republished, along with the earlier collection Dublin 4, in The Lilac Bus: Stories.

It is about a group of seven people from the West of Ireland village of Rathdoon, who all live in Dublin and return home every weekend on the Lilac Bus.

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