The Pink Hotel
by:
Anna Stothard (author)
A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily, from whom she had been separated in her childhood. After stealing a suitcase of letters, clothes and photographs from her mum's bedroom at the top of a hotel on Venice Beach, the girl spends her summer...
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A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily, from whom she had been separated in her childhood. After stealing a suitcase of letters, clothes and photographs from her mum's bedroom at the top of a hotel on Venice Beach, the girl spends her summer travelling around Los Angeles returning love letters and photographs to the men who had known her mother. As she discovers more about Lily's past and tries to re-enact her life, she comes to question the foundations of her own personality.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781846881756 (1846881757)
Publish date: February 16th 2012
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
Pages no: 280
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Travel,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Family,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
A lack of character development prevented this novel - about a young woman searching for clues about the recently deceased mother she never knew - from really getting off the ground.
Uhhh I couldn't get past the first couple of chapters on this one. I didn't like the writing style at all and was so bored, I almost fell asleep several times. Gave up.
Oddly without any display of emotion.
When I saw on the Waterstones Facebook page that they were looking for reviewers for this book I decided to apply for a copy to see what it was like as not one I had heard of before and probably not a book I would have picked myself. The story begins with the young girl (we never do get to find out...
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