Review: Ria, the insecure meets and becomes involved with charming Danny Lynch. After discovering that Ria is pregnant, they marry and purchase a big run down house, Danny becomes involved with Barney McCarthy, a well know business tycoon in Dublin who treats him like a son. But Barney's life is full of deception which Ria soon learns when she is offered a job at Barney's lovers dress shop. Marriage seems to make Ria bloom and her time is spent making the house a beautiful comfortable home which is always filled with the noise of family and friends and the smells of Ria's cooking, but not enough time alone with Danny who has risen to the ranks along with Barney in the real estate world.
It is not until Danny tells her that he is leaving her for his young pregnant girlfriend, that Ria realizes her life may change and she tries to find ways to bring Danny back.
An unexpected phone call from Marilyn, a woman in Connecticut who both her and Danny met years ago, gives her the opportunity to exchange homes for the summer and give her the courage to sort out the crisis in her live that is threatening to destroy her. For Marilyn, who only wants to be alone, the exchange bring many new friends into her life and she is able to sort out and bring solutions to their problems and her own.
The story is filled with deception, not only from a wayward husband but from friends and family as well. Too often we cannot see through the veneer of others when their lives become entangle with ours. It is also the story of unexpected friendships and above all hope. Of picking up ones live and going on despite making change and great sacrifices.
A thoroughly enchanting and thought provoking novel.
Joan Boucher
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