Tara Road

Ria, living on Tara Road with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children, was stunned when her husband announced that he was leaving her for his pregnant girlfriend. Ria met Marilyn, a woman from New England whose son had died, and found that they became fast friends. Private then struggling to find herself as a single mother on the eve of divorce, Marilyn has always guarded her privacy. Ria seemed to have become quite the hostess, entertaining half the neighborhood. These friendships irritated Marilyn at first, a woman who has always guarded her privacy. But she had never met anyone like Ria before, strong-willed but vulnerable; assertive but a little lost – qualities which caused Marilyn gradually to open up and share some secrets of her own with this mysterious Irishwoman who seemed to have found herself through friendship.