Wild Life
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New novel from the Guardian Not the Booker shortlisted author of 'Real Monsters'. '...as...
Sacred Combe: A Search for Humanity's Heartland
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We've all got one. A secret, special place. Hidden. Enclosed. A little greener and more fertile than...
The Replacement Killers (1998)
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International superstar Chow Yun-Fat (John Woo's Hard-Boiled) makes his Hollywood debut with Oscar®...
The Endless Forest (Wilderness #6)
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The spring of 1824 is a challenging one for the inhabitants of Paradise N.Y. when a flood devastates...
The Heart Goes Last
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Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social...
Sailing Lessons
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On the shores of Cape Cod, the Bailey sisters reunite with their long-lost father for a summer of...
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The Other Exile: The Story of Fernao Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost
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The first known inhabitant of St Helena - long before Napoleon - was a 16th-century Portuguese...
Lost Files: The Hidden Enemy
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I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Hidden Enemy is a collection of three action-packed novellas by...
ClareR (5721 KP) rated Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel in Books
May 9, 2021
This story is told from two points of view: 6 year old Tilly and 46 year old Tilda. We see Tilly in flashbacks as Tilda goes to her late mothers seaside home to clear out her belongings.
Tilly had been an outgoing, happy child, who adored her Daddy. But one day he leaves the house and doesn’t return. Her Mummy tells her that he’s dead. Tilly doesn’t really seem to understand the concept of ‘dead’. Indeed, Tilly doesn’t seem to understand that there are people she sees that others don’t seem to notice - dead people (this isn’t a huge theme in this book , so if you don’t like reading about the supernatural, it doesn’t dominate. But I like the supernatural, so 🤷🏼♀️). This is such a lovely story filled with very likeable people, such as the flamboyant Queenie Malone and her mother, who has a different Hollywood starlet name according to the day of the week.
In the present day, Tilda starts to work through her feelings of resentment towards her mother: the way that she felt abandoned when went to boarding school, in particular.
Tilda is a very solitary figure - a polar opposite to her childhood self, in fact. When she finds her mothers diaries and starts to read them, there are many revelations that explain her mothers motivations - some of them very sad.
This is another wonderful book from Ruth Hogan, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it (I bought a copy for my mum as soon as I finished it, in fact!).
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