The Secrets of Primrose Square by
Claudia Carroll
My rating:
5 of 5 stars
A little dose of Irish charm.
Primrose square, is a quiet little get away in the mist of a bustling city. Each home is place of warmth and love and a little bit of that Irish welcome. Filled with non-stop joy of reading through, this novel is going to make you want to laugh and cry along with each of the characters we come to know.
Alternating between the different neighbors of the little square, we come to learn some of their secrets, new loves and new friends through 18,19 and 24 Primrose square.
We come to know about Melissa and the trouble she is going through with her mother and the death of her older sister. We follow through mom's trouble of being able to cope and deal with her daughter's death, left with unanswered questions, she takes a few wrong turns in life.
And then there's Jayne, the loving older lady who lives next door to Melissa and her family in number 19, a widow after her husbands death a few years before, we get a glimpse in to her life and through her, we met her son and his wife and twin daughters. But most of all, we see how she is like a member of the family to Melissa when she needs someone the most, the loving next door neighbor who is only too happy to help look after the young girl and who we follow on her own little adventure of finding love.
And then we get to meet Nancy who ends up moving in to number 24, renting the beautiful house through a website while she takes on her new job at the theatre nearby, trying to move on with her life after leaving everything and everyone behind her in London. We get to see her struggles and find out her own little secret just like the other ladies of Primrose Square.
Focusing on three house holds, we come to know the ladies more, we come to love their little quirks and the things that they do as well as learning to cope with their own little secrets, when they just want to try and pretend that everything is okay really.
But in all honestly, The secrets of Primrose Square is a rather charming read that fills your heart with warmth and loss, the joy and laughter of young and old coming together in times of need. It's a book filled with happiness and sadness, lifting you up and holding you down with each character in their perfectly written way.
Kudos to the author who has really driven the image of the square in to our minds, she has created a masterpiece through her writing style and has shown us that things can and nearly always do get better, no matter how hard we may think things can be. With our friends and family behind us, we can almost do anything in the world.
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