Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel

Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel

Ruth Hogan, 1961-

Book - 2020

"Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who liked playing with ghosts and matches. She loved fizzy drinks, swear words, fish fingers and Catholic churches, but most of all she loved living in Brighton in Queenie Malone's magnificent Paradise Hotel with its endearing and loving family of misfits - staff and guests alike. But Tilly's childhood was shattered when her mother sent her away from the only home she'd ever loved to boarding school with little explanation and no warning. Now, Tilda has grown into an independent woman still damaged by her mother's unaccountable cruelty. Wary of people, her only friend is her dog, Eli. But when her mother dies, Tilda goes back to Brighton and with the help of her beloved Quee...nie sets about unravelling the mystery of her exile from The Paradise Hotel and she discovers that her mother was not the woman she thought she knew at all ... Mothers and daughters ... their story can be complicated ... it can also turn out to have a happy ending."--Publisher's description.

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Subjects
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Hotels > Fiction.
Mothers > Death > Fiction.
Brighton (England) > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Genres
Domestic fiction
Psychological fiction
Published
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers [2020]
Language
English
Main Author
Ruth Hogan, 1961- (author)
Edition
First U.S. edition
Item Description
"A novel"--Jacket.
Originally published in the UK in 2019 by Two Roads Books.
"P.S.: insights, interviews & more"--13 pages at end.
Physical Description
322, 13 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780062979643
9780062935717
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

Tilda lives a quiet, solitary life. At 46, she's never been close with family or friends. Her quirks help her cope with always feeling different, seeing things no one else seems to see, and carrying the weight of a troubled childhood. Her father's death in her childhood, her mother's prolonged illness, and an unwanted trip to boarding school all haunt Tilda into adulthood. But with her mother's death, everything changes. A trip to the seaside to sort through her mother's belongings leads to the discovery of her mother's hidden diaries. As Tilda painstakingly reads through them, she realizes everything she thought to be true is no longer her reality. In her third novel, Hogan (The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes, 2019) once again creates a captivating story full of endearing characters. Moving effortlessly through Tilda's memories, switching perspectives between her past and present, Hogan brings readers along on an unexpected, bumpy ride to self-discovery as Tilda lets go of her past in order to find what her future may hold.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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