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The Marriage of Rose Camilleri
An illuminating portrait of an unconventional marriage by bestselling and critically acclaimed author Robert Hough.
When Rose Camilleri and Scotty Larkin meet, neither expects to spend a lifetime together, navigating a sometimes turbulent marriage and scraping through the process of raising a family. When he first enters the bakery where she works, she is a new arrival from the tiny island nation of Malta, fond of rabbit stew and Hollywood cinema. He is a thoughtful printer’s assistant recently released from juvenile detention after stealing and swiftly totalling a stranger’s car. Even after years of marriage and two children together, Rose struggles to shake the idea that perhaps she should have held out for someone as voluble and optimistic as herself. But while some marriages are weakened by trauma, Rose and Scotty's union is strengthened by the act of survival, and they find their own kind of happiness along the way.
In The Marriage of Rose Camilleri, Robert Hough writes his larger-than-life characters with warmth, insight and humour, displaying the masterful approach to storytelling that gained his previous novels acclaim and several prestigious award nominations. Hough transports the reader into the epicentre of an unconventional love story, where he draws out captivating details from the fabric of an ordinary shared lifetime to create a story that lives in the moment and takes seriously the small but vital details of everyday life.
When Rose Camilleri and Scotty Larkin meet, neither expects to spend a lifetime together, navigating a sometimes turbulent marriage and scraping through the process of raising a family. When he first enters the bakery where she works, she is a new arrival from the tiny island nation of Malta, fond of rabbit stew and Hollywood cinema. He is a thoughtful printer’s assistant recently released from juvenile detention after stealing and swiftly totalling a stranger’s car. Even after years of marriage and two children together, Rose struggles to shake the idea that perhaps she should have held out for someone as voluble and optimistic as herself. But while some marriages are weakened by trauma, Rose and Scotty's union is strengthened by the act of survival, and they find their own kind of happiness along the way.
In The Marriage of Rose Camilleri, Robert Hough writes his larger-than-life characters with warmth, insight and humour, displaying the masterful approach to storytelling that gained his previous novels acclaim and several prestigious award nominations. Hough transports the reader into the epicentre of an unconventional love story, where he draws out captivating details from the fabric of an ordinary shared lifetime to create a story that lives in the moment and takes seriously the small but vital details of everyday life.
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9 books52 followersToronto author, bon-vivant, family man, spelunking enthusiast. My seventh novel, The Marriage of Rose Camilleri, was published in November of 2021.
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November 14, 2021
Such a beautifully written story. This one will hit you right in the feels. It's a book about marriage, but ultimately the trials and tribulations that go hand in hand with that. It's the story of life and family. One of sacrifice but also celebration. It's the story of love.
I adored The Marriage of Rose Camilleri. Not at all what I was expecting, it was so much more. Thank you so much to ZGstories and Douglas & McIntyre for my gifted copy!
I adored The Marriage of Rose Camilleri. Not at all what I was expecting, it was so much more. Thank you so much to ZGstories and Douglas & McIntyre for my gifted copy!
November 17, 2021
4.5!
Oh wow, prepare to be entranced! This is such a great family drama-type book, I couldn’t put it down. The characters are realistic and interesting, the things they go through as a family is realistic, and the lives they lead are (you guessed it), realistic as well!
Thank you ZG Stories for a copy in exchange for an honest review!
Oh wow, prepare to be entranced! This is such a great family drama-type book, I couldn’t put it down. The characters are realistic and interesting, the things they go through as a family is realistic, and the lives they lead are (you guessed it), realistic as well!
Thank you ZG Stories for a copy in exchange for an honest review!
May 7, 2022
My rating: 4.5 ⭐️
I absolutely loved this book. I loved the sarcastic and hidden humour, the rawness and realness of Rose and Scotty’s life together and the way Hough executed their story. I loved how relatable, lovable and well-rounded all the characters are.
Being an immigrant from Europe myself, I loved seeing the way Rose remembered and spoke about Malta as it reminded me a lot about traditions and cultural similarities we share. Hough did an amazing job writing this story from a female’s point of view and I honestly kept forgetting that the novel wasn’t written by a woman.
My takeaway from this novel is that you never really realize how much you can love someone until it’s almost too late and to enjoy and savour the little things on life because they make up the majority of it.
The reason for it not being a full 5 stars is I did find it a tad slow at times but I was still hooked regardless.
**I should add, it took me so long to finish because of personal family reasons**
Thank you to Douglas & McIntyre for my gifted copy.
I absolutely loved this book. I loved the sarcastic and hidden humour, the rawness and realness of Rose and Scotty’s life together and the way Hough executed their story. I loved how relatable, lovable and well-rounded all the characters are.
Being an immigrant from Europe myself, I loved seeing the way Rose remembered and spoke about Malta as it reminded me a lot about traditions and cultural similarities we share. Hough did an amazing job writing this story from a female’s point of view and I honestly kept forgetting that the novel wasn’t written by a woman.
My takeaway from this novel is that you never really realize how much you can love someone until it’s almost too late and to enjoy and savour the little things on life because they make up the majority of it.
The reason for it not being a full 5 stars is I did find it a tad slow at times but I was still hooked regardless.
**I should add, it took me so long to finish because of personal family reasons**
Thank you to Douglas & McIntyre for my gifted copy.
July 27, 2022
Just a nice story about a marriage. Some very lovely writing inside. For me, the story that will always be the best written on this subject is Dear Evelyn by Kathy Page. In terms of Hough's book being on the Longlist for the Giller Prize 2022, I would be very surprised to see it there, while it was a very nice story, I don't think it would catch the judges' eyes for this literary prize.
November 18, 2021
Darn, it, I’m a grown man, why am I crying?
How did the book make me feel/think?
The first two-hundred pages of “The Marriage of Rose Camilleri” by Robert Hough are delightful. Scotty + Rose are an unlikely pair stapled together in a broken night of intimacy. We follow them on a journey through insecurity and unfed desires as they attempt to piecemeal a life together.
There are sprinklings of subtly nuanced humour throughout the pages, instilling comforting tenderness in the reader’s hearts. As more of their tumult and mundane existences are revealed, the pages begin to turn themselves as it becomes impossible not to find yourself in their struggles.
I arrive at the last fifty pages. I’m reading in an almost empty food court. Only one other table is occupied. A page turns. A tear rolls down my cheek. I’m transported to the day my (grand)father died; my (grand)mother reached for his hand, when they touched, he took his last gasp of life and for the first time, I saw how much they were in love. Another page and find myself alongside my (grandmother) the night before she died; she pulled me close and whispered into my ear “Goodbye.”
Another page turns. I’m on a train with Rose + Scotty, their children, and a collection of strangers. Tears are pouring from my eyes. I can’t breathe. I can’t consume another word; I look over at the other patron of the food court—I need her to leave. She pulls on her Covid-mask. Please leave. She pulls down her Covid-mask; I weep. Finally, she leaves. I’m too heartbroken to finish. I don’t want to finish.
There is a beauty that comes from the boring mundaneness of living when somehow, despite all odds, love is allowed to grow when unburdened by condition.
I finished the book the following morning. The tears returned. Darn it, I’m a grown man.
My heart warms. Love is possible.
That’s how this book made me feel.
Definitely Top 5!
WRITTEN: November 18, 2021
How did the book make me feel/think?
The first two-hundred pages of “The Marriage of Rose Camilleri” by Robert Hough are delightful. Scotty + Rose are an unlikely pair stapled together in a broken night of intimacy. We follow them on a journey through insecurity and unfed desires as they attempt to piecemeal a life together.
There are sprinklings of subtly nuanced humour throughout the pages, instilling comforting tenderness in the reader’s hearts. As more of their tumult and mundane existences are revealed, the pages begin to turn themselves as it becomes impossible not to find yourself in their struggles.
I arrive at the last fifty pages. I’m reading in an almost empty food court. Only one other table is occupied. A page turns. A tear rolls down my cheek. I’m transported to the day my (grand)father died; my (grand)mother reached for his hand, when they touched, he took his last gasp of life and for the first time, I saw how much they were in love. Another page and find myself alongside my (grandmother) the night before she died; she pulled me close and whispered into my ear “Goodbye.”
Another page turns. I’m on a train with Rose + Scotty, their children, and a collection of strangers. Tears are pouring from my eyes. I can’t breathe. I can’t consume another word; I look over at the other patron of the food court—I need her to leave. She pulls on her Covid-mask. Please leave. She pulls down her Covid-mask; I weep. Finally, she leaves. I’m too heartbroken to finish. I don’t want to finish.
There is a beauty that comes from the boring mundaneness of living when somehow, despite all odds, love is allowed to grow when unburdened by condition.
I finished the book the following morning. The tears returned. Darn it, I’m a grown man.
My heart warms. Love is possible.
That’s how this book made me feel.
Definitely Top 5!
WRITTEN: November 18, 2021
December 22, 2021
Like Rose and Scott, I am Nova Scotian who married a Maltese. I found the Maltese dialect a bit odd; the sentence structure, trying to capture the lilt of the Maltese, did not ring true for me. And while the Cape Bretoner's cussed a lot, I guess that is fitting (JESUS Rosie!) I did not expect that emotional wallop at the end...it was a nice happy story of the lives of two people, then BAM. And I thought the ending (after the emotional wallop) was a bit abrupt. But all in a all a nice love story.
December 4, 2021
OMG! At first this started off as a pleasant read about two young people, too young to be married, and definitely too young to have children and we read about their life struggling to make do. She, is a fiery Maltese women, he is a diffident young Canadian and together they forge a life together with its ups and downs with their children. Just as they get out from under, past the trials and tribulations of teen hood, (which had some spectacular twists) , past not having a dime, then whamo, life kicks them in the teeth. Bring a box a tissues , you’ll need it.
April 28, 2022
The forests of the world are taking a hit with my reading this one… I had to go find my box of Kleenex to get me through - thankfully only the latter part - of this book.
The author, as he himself notes at the end of the book, is neither Maltese, nor a woman - but the way he ‘inhabits’ Rose and brings her to life on the page… you’d swear he was both. Rose is a character so deeply and lovingly drawn - so honest, so authentic, with such incredible self-awareness - that I have to wonder who the inspiration for her character was. Rose is a woman of such profound faith - simple but not - and it is that faith that sees her through her life.
Indeed, I wonder about the inspiration for the whole story, it being so completely different from any of his earlier titles. Which of course is the true measure of one who is a master of this particular craft - that they are not telling the same story over and over again. Hough’s gift for creating compelling characters, and letting them tell their story their own way, just keeps getting better and better with every title.
While the ending - in very general terms - is told/telegraphed to the reader just a few pages in, the question left hanging at that moment serves to draw the reader in - wanting to know the who, the why and the how. As we continue, every few chapters, there is another ‘tidbit’ dropped… each one building upon the prior, the net result being that you know how this is going to end with a little bit of warning - time to prepare yourself for the ending (which even then is not quite exactly as you expect it to be).
But the real beauty of this novel is the love story that is the relationship between Rose and Scotty. They are so used to each other, so comfortable, and their relationship is filled with such tenderness. Hough captures, with exquisite perfection, the ups and downs - noting that ‘(i)f marriage is to last, it must wax more than it wanes’ - as well as the ways in which couples ‘take turns falling apart.’
Then there is the matter of family… the centre of their lives… of being together and nothing else mattering. We are reminded that the only thing that ever matters is this moment - “this joyous and light-filled instance.”
Not enough yet? There is still more - that this is such a love letter to west-end Toronto: Little Malta, the Junction, High Park, the (old) Lakeshore strip… all part of the map of my teenage years.
Love this book!!! Read this book.
With thanks to the author, the publisher and Edelweiss for granting me access to a digital ARC (even though it appears that I forgot to post at the time.......)
The author, as he himself notes at the end of the book, is neither Maltese, nor a woman - but the way he ‘inhabits’ Rose and brings her to life on the page… you’d swear he was both. Rose is a character so deeply and lovingly drawn - so honest, so authentic, with such incredible self-awareness - that I have to wonder who the inspiration for her character was. Rose is a woman of such profound faith - simple but not - and it is that faith that sees her through her life.
Indeed, I wonder about the inspiration for the whole story, it being so completely different from any of his earlier titles. Which of course is the true measure of one who is a master of this particular craft - that they are not telling the same story over and over again. Hough’s gift for creating compelling characters, and letting them tell their story their own way, just keeps getting better and better with every title.
While the ending - in very general terms - is told/telegraphed to the reader just a few pages in, the question left hanging at that moment serves to draw the reader in - wanting to know the who, the why and the how. As we continue, every few chapters, there is another ‘tidbit’ dropped… each one building upon the prior, the net result being that you know how this is going to end with a little bit of warning - time to prepare yourself for the ending (which even then is not quite exactly as you expect it to be).
But the real beauty of this novel is the love story that is the relationship between Rose and Scotty. They are so used to each other, so comfortable, and their relationship is filled with such tenderness. Hough captures, with exquisite perfection, the ups and downs - noting that ‘(i)f marriage is to last, it must wax more than it wanes’ - as well as the ways in which couples ‘take turns falling apart.’
Then there is the matter of family… the centre of their lives… of being together and nothing else mattering. We are reminded that the only thing that ever matters is this moment - “this joyous and light-filled instance.”
Not enough yet? There is still more - that this is such a love letter to west-end Toronto: Little Malta, the Junction, High Park, the (old) Lakeshore strip… all part of the map of my teenage years.
Love this book!!! Read this book.
With thanks to the author, the publisher and Edelweiss for granting me access to a digital ARC (even though it appears that I forgot to post at the time.......)
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June 3, 2022If you are seeking out a book that is filled with great passion and emotion, then you certainly cannot go wrong with THE MARRIAGE OF ROSE CAMILLERI. It is one of those feel-good books you will enjoy on every page.
Robert Hough’s books have been shortlisted for many awards such as Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and Trillium Book Award. It is not difficult to see why his books have received such prestigious accolades.
The book focuses on Rose Camilleri, who lives in Malta. She decides it is high time to leave her village and find a life and fortune elsewhere. She heads to Canada where she hopes to do just that. It is coincidentally when she is sitting in a Maltese café, that she happens to encounter Scotty Larkin. He is from Cape Breton and he has not had the most pristine life before. He has had issues with the law, and it is not long before the two strike up a friendship.
It is not love at first sight, but the two seem to have things in common, looking beyond their differences. The two do eventually marry, and there are two children who come as a product of their union. There are many ups and downs along the way, and Scotty seems destined to head back to his rather dubious past.
As Rose narrates the story so eloquently, she points out the bad and good times, and times when she wondered just why she brought this man into her life. It is the way that Rose tells the story of Scotty and their life, that gives the reader such a warm empathy for her, and what she has dealt with. Scotty never said he was perfect, allowing Rose to look beyond imperfections and accept him for what he is.
We see the past and present, and how twenty-five years later, life comes full circle. There is great sadness in that Scotty’s health is declining, and while Rose realizes the best and worst and times have visited them both, she will always love this man no matter what. This is a true love story that may cause you to keep a few tissues handy, as a misty wetness may come to your eyes as you read the final pages of this profoundly delightful tale.
Robert Hough’s books have been shortlisted for many awards such as Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and Trillium Book Award. It is not difficult to see why his books have received such prestigious accolades.
The book focuses on Rose Camilleri, who lives in Malta. She decides it is high time to leave her village and find a life and fortune elsewhere. She heads to Canada where she hopes to do just that. It is coincidentally when she is sitting in a Maltese café, that she happens to encounter Scotty Larkin. He is from Cape Breton and he has not had the most pristine life before. He has had issues with the law, and it is not long before the two strike up a friendship.
It is not love at first sight, but the two seem to have things in common, looking beyond their differences. The two do eventually marry, and there are two children who come as a product of their union. There are many ups and downs along the way, and Scotty seems destined to head back to his rather dubious past.
As Rose narrates the story so eloquently, she points out the bad and good times, and times when she wondered just why she brought this man into her life. It is the way that Rose tells the story of Scotty and their life, that gives the reader such a warm empathy for her, and what she has dealt with. Scotty never said he was perfect, allowing Rose to look beyond imperfections and accept him for what he is.
We see the past and present, and how twenty-five years later, life comes full circle. There is great sadness in that Scotty’s health is declining, and while Rose realizes the best and worst and times have visited them both, she will always love this man no matter what. This is a true love story that may cause you to keep a few tissues handy, as a misty wetness may come to your eyes as you read the final pages of this profoundly delightful tale.
October 27, 2021
Grab a box of tissue and pick up The Marriage of Rose Camilleri.
Author Robert Hough has written a strikingly beautiful book about a marriage. Rose is a young girl from Malta who leaves her family, as the young ones do in her small village, to start a new life abroad. Rose’s destination is Canada. It is in a Maltese cafe in Toronto where she begins working and meets Scotty Larkin. At first Rose, known at the time as Rosie, is not physically attracted to Scotty but agrees to date him for something to do and to sew some wild oats. She can always meet another man if it is this easy in Canada to meet men. Fast forward to the present and they have been married for 25 years and are taking a trip of sorts with their two grown children to see the mountains across Canada.
Topics of mental health, poverty, criminality, immigration, loss and love span this novel. There is an underlying discomfort throughout the novel that the reader may not be able to identify immediately. The characters jump off the page and into your heart.
There were moments of this story that reminded me of my own parents from struggling to keep the roof over our heads to the moments of frustration with each other but ultimate love.
I am left with the feeling of gratitude for my family and to live life while I we can. The ending is sad, so sad but hopeful.
Thank you to @zgstories and @douglasmcintyre2013 for this ARC in exchange for my honest opinions. The Marriage of Rose Camilleri published on October 23, 2021.
Author Robert Hough has written a strikingly beautiful book about a marriage. Rose is a young girl from Malta who leaves her family, as the young ones do in her small village, to start a new life abroad. Rose’s destination is Canada. It is in a Maltese cafe in Toronto where she begins working and meets Scotty Larkin. At first Rose, known at the time as Rosie, is not physically attracted to Scotty but agrees to date him for something to do and to sew some wild oats. She can always meet another man if it is this easy in Canada to meet men. Fast forward to the present and they have been married for 25 years and are taking a trip of sorts with their two grown children to see the mountains across Canada.
Topics of mental health, poverty, criminality, immigration, loss and love span this novel. There is an underlying discomfort throughout the novel that the reader may not be able to identify immediately. The characters jump off the page and into your heart.
There were moments of this story that reminded me of my own parents from struggling to keep the roof over our heads to the moments of frustration with each other but ultimate love.
I am left with the feeling of gratitude for my family and to live life while I we can. The ending is sad, so sad but hopeful.
Thank you to @zgstories and @douglasmcintyre2013 for this ARC in exchange for my honest opinions. The Marriage of Rose Camilleri published on October 23, 2021.
March 26, 2022
“Performing the very acts that cause us harm is what makes us human. It is this contradiction that keeps us alive.”
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This book follows the married life of Rose and Scotty. It showed the reality of a young couple with two children who does everything they can to get by and still be able to provide for their family. Honestly, this book was a light read for the most part but while in the middle of the story, I know that something heavy is going to happen. This book got a lot of good reviews but I’m never one for reading others reviews thoroughly before actually reading the book, I just wanted to know if people thought it was great or nah. And I think that’s why I wasn’t prepared for what happened in the last 20 pages of the book. I read really fast more than halfway through the book but when the bomb dropped, I was literally crying while turning pages - and you know how hard it is to read while crying. I came to love the characters and it was so hard to close the book knowing I won’t know any more about their lives. I don’t want to talk too much about the story to avoid spoiling anyone else who might want to read this but I just want to say that this book is so realistic - sometimes funny, sometimes serious but also it is so deep and heavy.
TW: Death, Cancer, Drugs
This book was sent to me by @douglasmcintyre in exchange for an honest review.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This book follows the married life of Rose and Scotty. It showed the reality of a young couple with two children who does everything they can to get by and still be able to provide for their family. Honestly, this book was a light read for the most part but while in the middle of the story, I know that something heavy is going to happen. This book got a lot of good reviews but I’m never one for reading others reviews thoroughly before actually reading the book, I just wanted to know if people thought it was great or nah. And I think that’s why I wasn’t prepared for what happened in the last 20 pages of the book. I read really fast more than halfway through the book but when the bomb dropped, I was literally crying while turning pages - and you know how hard it is to read while crying. I came to love the characters and it was so hard to close the book knowing I won’t know any more about their lives. I don’t want to talk too much about the story to avoid spoiling anyone else who might want to read this but I just want to say that this book is so realistic - sometimes funny, sometimes serious but also it is so deep and heavy.
TW: Death, Cancer, Drugs
This book was sent to me by @douglasmcintyre in exchange for an honest review.
December 5, 2021
As a fan of Hough's over the years, I think this is Robert’s best book yet and deserves our attention – whimsical, touching and with something for everyone who has raised a family and has had to part with one of its pillars. Part of the deserved critical acclaim that this book has been receiving has been focussed on Robert’s ability to rise to the gender-shifting challenge of a male writing in the first-person as a woman. The book holds an added appeal to the refugees from Toronto among us given its local highlights and settings and multi-cultural flavour (set in the Maltese-Canadian community) .
November 18, 2021
This is the story of a Maltese woman and a Nova Scotia man who met in Toronto. It is simply the story of their levies together, the story of their children. And while it sounds like a simple story, it is told beautifully, using the voice of Rosie. It is funny a times, touching but also incredibly sad. And if you are of a certain age, you can see your own life in what they are going through. This is a beautiful story, well written and definitely a page turner.
January 1, 2022
I love this book!!! When I finally cracked it open, I devoured it.
Rob Hough has a gift for creating the most endearing people. I don't know how he does it?
The story was so very moving and had me captivated from start to finish.
As the story unfolds there is a twist that touches on a very important issue.
I really honed in on how our relationships/connections to others transform us in the most unexpected ways.
Rob Hough has a gift for creating the most endearing people. I don't know how he does it?
The story was so very moving and had me captivated from start to finish.
As the story unfolds there is a twist that touches on a very important issue.
I really honed in on how our relationships/connections to others transform us in the most unexpected ways.
April 23, 2023
lovely book about the life of Rose growing up in Malta and her move to Toronto - 2 places quite familiar to me which makes it more heart warming to read.
It's about Rose, how she settled in a new city, met her husband, her 2 kids' lives, neighbours, friends, families, thoughts, struggles... it's full of humour and lightness, though you knew something was going to happen that would lead to a significant change to everything she's known.
Very topical and endearing. Lovely book.
It's about Rose, how she settled in a new city, met her husband, her 2 kids' lives, neighbours, friends, families, thoughts, struggles... it's full of humour and lightness, though you knew something was going to happen that would lead to a significant change to everything she's known.
Very topical and endearing. Lovely book.
December 1, 2021
What a poignant book of a life and marriage well-lived. I picked it up before a flight and couldn't put it down. At least until the final act when I kept getting choked up and had to put it down several times to collect myself. Finally finished it in my hotel room at my destination. Will reread it on my flight back. Wonderful book wonderfully written.
September 28, 2023
As the author says in the afterword, he is neither a woman nor Maltese. I can’t speak for how well he captured the Maltese experience but Rosie’s voice was perfect. Circumstances, rather than true love, cause her and Scotty to marry young and to live impoverished in Toronto for many years, and Rosie feels unsatisfied. But they both grow in the course of the marriage and this becomes a realistic story of family and partnership, tinged with sadness.
December 10, 2024
Hough takes the reader on a journey through a marriage and family life that is both remarkable and ordinary. Written primarily as a retrospective from Rose's perspective, a beautiful tapestry of memories rise to the surface as the family faces an incomprehensible change. For anyone who loves a character-driven story about the human experience, I highly recommend this book!
January 17, 2022
Hough's previous books tended to be about larger-than-life characters doing out-of-the-ordinary things. But The Marriage of Rose Camilleri is about regular people leading regular lives and the book is all the more powerful because of it. Beautifully written, too. Excellent and highly recommended.
April 17, 2022
Hats off to the author, who is neither Maltese nor female for writing such a believable character in Rosie. A lovely story that pitched me right back to being a new mother. It captures the highs and lows of relationships and parenthood so beautifully.
October 14, 2022
It took me two tries to start the book, for no particular reason, but once I got into it I was completely taken by Rose and her journey. The story is full of warmth and humour and just enough twists and turns of fortune to keep me hooked. I feel like I know the family and was in tears by the end.
September 12, 2024
Hmmm a bit boring, for some reason I couldn’t connect with any of the characters. Cheating jn a marriage is not okay. And how much ever the relationship means to you later on, it, in my opinion is already dead.
November 1, 2021
This is a poignant account of the vicissitudes of Rose Camelleri's marriage to Scotty Larkin. It is beautifully told, and rings so very true to life.
January 8, 2022
Beautiful. A portrait painted with words any tiny events. The illumination of a perfectly ordinary marriage, but not boring. Recommended!
January 22, 2022
very slow start
i really only started enjoying this book half way through
tear jerker at the end
i really only started enjoying this book half way through
tear jerker at the end
March 26, 2022
Such an enjoyable read. The characters are human, full of foibles and joys. Easy to get wrapped up in the charming Rose’s life, be swept along in her story. Loved this book
April 1, 2022
I liked Rosie :) and liking or understanding the protagonist always helps :). And it was like life - up and down- simple and complex - easy and hard - messy and neat. A good read.
May 3, 2022
Set in Toronto, life over 20 year span of Scotty and Rose who is from Malta
June 9, 2022
Sensitive portrayal of an important life transition. Good character development.
July 21, 2022
I loved this love story. Characters were relatable and hooked me.
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