A solidly middle-of-the-road read this one. Lagged a bit while the author felt a need to use her research and the story felt bitty and unfinished. There were times when this story of a woman breaking into the world of flower arranging and working for herself sparkled but it was often overshadowed by too much detail and attempting to keep several plots going that didn't just gel. While interesting in parts overall it just didn't work for me, maybe tighter editing would have been a bonus to this story.

I picked this up because I used to live on Capel Street in Dublin and I was wondering if it would give me a little fun insight into the Capel family, but that wasn't what the story was about, the story was more about flowers and flower breeding and arranging and the biases that the upper classes had against working and middle class.

Some interesting insights but overall not really worth it, some potential. ( )