Irish writer Maeve Binchy is popular not only in her homeland, but throughout the world. She is the author of several plays, collections of short stories, and more than a dozen novels. Her books invariably became bestsellers and more than once received prestigious international awards. Various reasons force the characters of the novel “Italian Lessons” (1996), residents of Dublin, to study Italian, and these seemingly unremarkable courses gradually become very important for them. Binchy's characters, forgetting about everyday worries and anxieties during lessons, find new friends and new love here. And after the long-awaited trip to Italy, they will never be able to live as before...