Every Friday night, the same seven Dublin workers meet to travel home in Tom Fitzgerald"s lilac-coloured minibus. Each of them needs to return regularly to Rathdoon: Nancy Morris, a real "Miss Mouse", is known for her meanness and has to escape her flatmate"s carping; Dee Burke is engrossed in her affair; Kev Kennedy has a side to his character hidden even from his family; Celis Ryan has to face her mother making a drunken exhibition of herself - and Tom has his reasons. Meave Binchy"s vibrant characters, with all their joys and sadness, are brilliantly brought to life by Kate Binchy.