Book after Book

Hi Claudia! First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the publication of The Secrets of Primrose Square . Can you please briefly tell us what it is about? A: Of course, and thank you so much for asking me to take part in your blog – I really am delighted! Just to tell you a little about Primrose Square, the book is essentially a number of interwoven stories based on a simple quote by Eleanor Roosevelt.  ‘A woman is like a tea bag. You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.’ So we’ve got Susan,   a middle aged woman who’s out of her mind with grief. She spends night after night standing in the pouring rain outside a teenage boy’s bedroom window, determined not to let him forget what he’s put her through. But why? Then we meet Melissa, her twelve year old daughter, desperately trying to keep the show on the road and to keep social workers at bay. Next door to them on Primrose Square is Jayne, a sixty-something super-ager, who finds romance i...

By Claudia Carroll Published by Zaffre Synopsis: It's late at night and the rain is pouring down on the Dublin city streets. A mother is grieving for her dead child. She stands silently outside the home of the teenage boy she believes responsible. She watches … In a kitchen on the same square, a girl waits anxiously for her mum to come home. She knows exactly where she is, but she knows she cannot reach her.  A few doors down, and a widow sits alone in her room. She has just delivered a bombshell to her family during dinner and her life is about to change forever.  And an aspiring theatre director has just moved in to a flat across the street. Her landlord is absent, but there are already things about him that don't quite add up… Welcome to Primrose Square. How did this book end up in my hands? I won a copy of this book ahead of publication day, which made me very happy. Was it a page-turner? Only work got in the way. I couldn’t wait for my next break to pi...