Maeve Binchy's A WEEK in WINTER, Dull Reading Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall

Perhaps it is sacrosanct for me to malign the writing of beloved Irish author, Maeve Binchy, on her last novel completed shortly before her death ('12).   Nevertheless, I found by A WEEK in WINTER a tedious read.  I read only 100 pages of this novel but these were 100 pages of tedium.  Her novel is outdated & trite.  The story is set in Stoneybridge, a small Irish village, mid-20th C.  Stoneybridge has dim prospects for the future & very astringent moral conventions.  Carnal relations outside of wedlock is so disgraceful, young women become forsaken by their families.  Chicky & Orly are 2 such women whose promiscuous behaviors ("it isn't fitting,") send them from their homes onto diverging paths that    intwine decades later.   Chicky follows her lover to America.  She returns home to Ireland under fraudulent accounts.  Back inside the local parish, Chicky "wondered if there really was a God up there watching and listening.  It didn't seem very likely."  I questioned why Binchy's writing has been so highly honored.  She was eulogized as "Ireland's best loved & most recognizable writer."  Ms. Binchy had been awarded both the British & Irish Book Awards for Lifetime Achievement.  Even the omnipotent Oprah chose Binchy's TARA ROAD as one of her Book Club Selections.  Perhaps these should entice me to finish A WEEK in WINTER or attempt another of her novels.  However, this will not  happen in winter, spring, summer or fall.  Instead, I highly recommend Alice McDermott's CHARMING BILLY or works by Irish writer Colum McCann.