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BOOKS TO READ in May/June

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Fiction

Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel

by Ruth Hogan

(Two Roads, R315)

The new novel from the bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things is an uplifting story of mothers and daughters, families and secrets, and the astonishing power of friendship. Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who loved living in Brighton in Queenie Malone’s magnificent Paradise Hotel. But her childhood was shattered when her mother sent her away to boarding school with little explanation and no warning. Many years later, Tilda has grown into an independent woman still damaged by her mother’s unaccountable cruelty. When her mother dies, she goes back to Brighton and sets about unravelling the mystery,

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