The Secrets of Primrose Square: A warm, feel-good tale of hope from number one bestselling author Claudia Carroll

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The Secrets of Primrose Square: A warm, feel-good tale of hope from number one bestselling author Claudia Carroll

The Secrets of Primrose Square: A warm, feel-good tale of hope from number one bestselling author Claudia Carroll

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It’s a wonderful character exploration of someone who realises they actually can be better than they think. I could not relate to any of the women purely because they exist for one sole comic purpose and Claudia Carroll does not bother to furnish them with credible and ongoing lives outside of their allotted niche. They are so far from well-realised creations and due to how flimsy they appear I found even relating to the world painted in Primrose Square impossible. Ella’s presence is felt throughout the novel and perhaps, in truth, a little overdone to the point of becoming frustrating, especially given that she is portrayed as one-dimensionally as the rest of the cast with her spirited attitude, feminist views and protest marching dynamism. This is a bang up to date book that uses modern phrases, many previously unknown to myself (being as I am a bit of an oldie) but I know now what they are and the meanings, so I have learnt a lot. At number eighteen, there’s Susan, who spends her nights standing out on the street in pitch darkness outside an eighteen-year-old boy’s home, staring, just staring up at his bedroom window. She’s no deranged stalker though. She’s just an ordinary woman dealing with the unimaginable the only way she knows how. Frank Woods at number seventy-nine Primrose Square is about to turn fifty, and nobody seems to care.

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. Further benefits include a guest cloakroom, underfloor heating throughout, a water filtration system, electronic smart controls, Sonos audio systems, air conditioning in the principal bedroom, and ample vault storage. We now have more things going on at the college and we ask for potential students to give us a call to arrange a face to face appointment or alternatively if you can not make an appointment you can drop in every Thursday between 10:30am and 12pm at our Coffee and Cake mornings to enrol then. His friends are all busy; his wife and children have other plans. After years of being 'Mr Cellophane', he decides, finally, to do something for himself. But when he gets home to a surprise birthday party, it is his guests who get the real surprise.The information on housing, people, culture, employment and education that is displayed about Primrose Square, Swanton Morley, Dereham, NR20 4PN is based on the last census performed in the UK in 2021. The publisher’s blurb promises that there are many stories behind the closed doors of Primrose Square, Dublin and this novel follows four main characters. Susan is trying to come to terms with the death, almost a year earlier, of her elder teenage daughter, Ella. She believes that Ella’s boyfriend was responsible and spends hours standing outside his house, just watching, even though she is constantly being moved on by the police. Whilst she is obsessed with her vigil, or virtually comatose as a result of her addiction to tranquillisers, her twelve-year-old younger daughter Melissa is trying to keep up a semblance of normality at home. She misses her big sister and would like to be able to help her mother but feels powerless to do so. She also misses her father who is in the army and posted abroad; although she speaks to him every day she feels she must pretend that everything is alright at home, that she and her mother are OK. She has become very good at pretending. Elderly widow Jayne, lives next door and tries to offer whatever support she can to Melissa and Susan but she has recently met someone else and needs to share this momentous news with her selfish son and self-obsessed daughter in law. Nancy is a young, aspiring theatre director who has taken a job in Dublin to escape a scandal in London and lives in fear that her past will catch up with her. Without giving anything away, we have Susan and her husband who is grieving over the loss of their daughter, we do not find out how she died until later on in the story. Their lovely neighbour Jayne is a widow and talks to her dead husband’s ashes, she keeps an eye out for Susan and her other daughter Melissa. Right next door is Jayne, sixty-something years young, Pollyanna-positive and determined to squeeze every last drop of enjoyment out of life. Normally she takes a kind, almost grandmotherly care of young Melissa, but as the play opens, she has other matters on her mind. Melissa absolutely had my sympathy from the outset. Twelve year old she is left trying to deal with so much, you cannot help but feel for her. Jayne is the kind of neighbour anyone who want. So what if she talks to her husband’s ashes which sit on the mantelpiece. There are plenty worse things she could do. Susan’s grief has turned her into someone she hardly recognises herself. She needs help. But who can help her and how? Many of the characters are likable or understandable in the way they behave. Jayne’s son Jason and his wife Irene would be two of the unlikable ones. They are self- centred in the extreme. Can they change? You’ll have to read the book to find out.

La prima cosa che mi ha colpito di questo libro è stato il titolo, a seguire la trama e poi sicuramente la copertina. In genere mi piace pensare che sono i libri che scelgono me, ed in genere lo fanno attraverso la copertina. Then there’s her daughter Melissa, fourteen years of age and desperately trying to keep up some semblance of normality at home. But with her mother acting like a crazy lady and the bitchiness of the bullies in school, what chance has she? The ground floor offers a wonderful reception room with superb volumes as well as a further elegant oak panelled room which is currently used as a study. Co-delivery means that each course is delivered by a trained tutor who is an Expert by Experience and a trained tutor who is an Expert by Profession. This means that one person is not supporting or secondary to the other and there is equality of roles. Second book in a series, which can be read individually, as the connection between the books is simply the place where the main characters live: the fictional Primrose Square, in Dublin city. This is a character-driven story, but the characters are not that well build in my opinion, they all feel quite fictional and for me it was hard to connect with them.

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