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From the best-selling author of The Keeper of Lost Things and The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes - a novel of mothers and daughters, families and secrets and the astonishing power of friendship.

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 Queenie, sets about unravelling the mystery of her exile from The Paradise Hotel and 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.

©2019 Ruth Hogan (P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Contemporary Contemporary Romance Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction Romance Feel-Good Heartfelt

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"Hogan's work is filled with hope and the power of friendship." (Evening Standard)

"Hogan writes welcoming prose that makes reading a joy." (Stylist)

"The Up-Lit Queen." (Sunday Post)
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A lovely story to read I like everything about this book I felt like I knew all of the characters I think any one would enjoy this book even children

Delightful

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As I started listening to this book I thought seriously how can one expect to listen to this but my advice is listen for a while as it does get better.

Got better after a while

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Gentle story which jumps back and forth over the decades. Binge listened.over 3 days. Great.

lots of plot twists and turns

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I pushed through to the end on this one having loved another by the same author. This one didn't cut the mustard.

a colourful cast of characters, which didn't hold together

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I was truly captivated by this wonderful story from beginning to end. Amazing characters, I loved Eli the little guardian angel dog in particular. The whole story was so expertly weaved together and the narrator was excellent, capturing the voices perfectly, especially young Tilly. I would thoroughly recommend this book!

What a story and what a performance!

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