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2000s: It’s amazing what blooms in Lavender Square…
The King of Lavender Square
What you need to know before your trail
Patrick Kimba is a young football mad boy in Dublin, whose mother immigrated from the Congo bringing a suitcase of secrets with her. They live together in Lavender Square, a neighborhood of strangers who might live close to each other but who in reality live in isolation. When his mother becomes ill, the neighbours reluctantly come together in an effort to look out for him and look after him as well. Kimba has an effect on them all and gradually alters their lives whether they want him to or not. Kimba starts to see more of the world around him and the people who might make him what he deserves to become.
Locations
Reset- Ireland - (Republic of ) - Dublin
- A: Dublin Mountains
- B: "Victoria Square"
- C: "Victoria Square" - Fitzwilliam Square
- D: Aviva Stadium
Travel Guide
Dublin
The view was quite spectacular
The Sun rose into a cloudless sky and tinged the world a blue -pink.
A mist hung above the walled private garden and , far away in the distance, a haze blanketed the Dublin Mountains
When she had first moved in, years before, Saskia had made a point of reading about KLavender Square in the local library. Built as Victoria Square, the intention was a modest development of terraced townhouses, two storeys over garden level, and a salute to the then queen who would have approved of the Upstairs Downstairs architecture with its granite steps that delivered callers to the main front door.
The houses in the square:
“At first glance, the houses int he square were pleasant: red-bricks, their two storeys rising proudly above the granite-skirted garden level. The walled garden at its centre was maintained by a solitary gardener but rarely used…”
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Destination: Dublin Author/Guide: Susan Ryan Departure Time: 2000s
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