Danny is very attractive and ambitious, and when he meets Ria, his first ambition is to be able to buy the house where he is living with three other mates. Some months later she meets a new hire, Danny Lynch, and they fall in love with him.
Ria eventually goes to work at an estate agency where she meets Rosemary, attractive and blonde, who becomes her best friend. Soon Hilary and Martin get engaged and married. Hilary is hired at a school where she meets Martin Moran, who is dull and stingy. The two sisters study in secretarial college and they both get different jobs. So Ria and Hilary think of marriage as their ultimate aim. Nora Johnson has always instilled the idea of marriage into her daughters. I own a hardback copy of this novel, however I purchased an ecopy this time around this is – as always – my honest, original and unbiased review.This is the story of Ria Johnson, who has grown up in Dublin with her widowed mother and older sister, Hilary. I can’t begin to explain why I loved this so much, but I did and it is, once again, easily worth ten stars, but I can only give it five – please know that they are all sparkling brighter than any others! This isn’t so much a novel about two women but more a story about people in two very different neighbourhoods and it is bursting with warmth and humour. There is no one else who writes like Maeve Binchy and I had forgotten that! She understands and writes about human nature better than anyone else I’ve ever come across and I wallowed in Tara Road. These women are very different creatures – will this be a summer which brings them what they seek?
Luckily the connection is made between them and Ria flies off to a modern open-plan apartment in New England while Marilyn heads to a beautiful old home in Tara Road, Dublin. Ria and Marilyn have never met, but circumstances lead them both to needing to be on the opposite sides of the Atlantic at the same time. I have read this book many times before, but it’s such a long time since I opened it last it was almost like reading it for the first time.
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