Hotel 21 : The 'funny, poignant and completely heart-warming' debut novel

Author: Rich, Senta

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 6 June 2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 288 pages
198 x 128 x 17 | 208g

'Beautifully told, this is a heart-warming and thought-provoking read.' Heat 'A sharp, funny, poignant and completely heart-warming story about female friendship and kick-ass women. I truly loved it!' Ruth Hogan ‘I have a first-day rule. Any sign of trouble, even a whiff of a problem, and I walk.’Noelle is an efficient and friendly hotel cleaner, a model employee. Or so she’d have you think. The trouble is that she can’t help taking little ‘souvenirs’ as she cleans. Nothing of value, just tokens of happy, normal lives: a lipstick, a hair clip, some tweezers. And by the time the guest has noticed, she’s long gone.

As she starts at her 21st hotel, she’s determined to beat her record of one month in a five star hotel before suspicion falls on her. But when she meets her new colleagues, her plans are complicated. These women aren’t just hands pushing carts down lonely hotel corridors: they are women with lives full of happiness and worry, pain and joy. The kind of lives Noelle has never known how to live. They make her wonder what it might be like to have real friends, people to stick around for… Will the women at Hotel 21 give her the courage to claim the life she deserves, or will her old habits come back to haunt her?'Wonderful!' Daily Mail** Readers LOVE Hotel 21 **‘A feel good book that restores your faith in friendship. You can't help but love it’‘It's pure happy bliss’‘This is a warm fuzzy hug of a book’‘An absolute heart-warming read with some unforgettable characters’‘I read it in one sitting!’ ‘You know you’ve just finished a really special book when it comes to a close and you miss the main character already’‘A stunning take on what it means to be human and the impact of the connections we make every day’