43 pages • 1 hour read
Maeve BinchyA Week in Winter
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Chapters 6-7Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 6 Summary: “Henry and Nicola”
Henry and Nicola are a married couple, both doctors. They are happy together, even though they can’t conceive a child. One day, they’re both working in A&E when a man on drugs shoots himself and his girlfriend. Henry and Nicola are traumatized and take time away by responding to a job advert for a doctor on a cruise ship. On the ship, they get to travel all around the world. On one journey, a woman reveals that her two parents with whom she’s traveling have disabilities; the woman lied about their disabilities in order to give them a holiday from which they would otherwise be excluded. Henry and Nicola agree to keep the woman’s secret from the rest of the ship’s crew. Shortly after the family departs, the couple learns that the woman and her family intentionally drove into a wall and died. Henry and Nicola understand that they helped the woman have one last holiday before her suicide. Their trauma compounded, they leave their jobs and decide to take a holiday to recuperate, which leads them to Stone House.
