Hotel 21

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

Senta Rich

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
01 August 2023

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

'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

By: Senta Rich
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9781526650498
ISBN 10: 1526650495
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

SENTA RICH began her career as an advertising copywriter. During this time, she also wrote radio plays and magazine articles, before moving into the world of screenwriting. She now writes regularly for film and TV. She lives in Dublin with her husband and son. Hotel 21 is her debut novel.

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

What a wonderful book! Noelle is such an authentic and original personality. Her spikiness and vulnerability combine perfectly to make her both engaging and intriguing. Her colleagues at Hotel 21 are exactly the kind of women I would want to have my back! Hotel 21 is a sharp, funny, poignant and completely heart-warming story about female friendship and kick-ass women. I truly loved it! * Ruth Hogan * Noelle is my new hero, she quietly, but firmly stole my heart. * Ericka Waller, author of Dog Days *