Introducing The Wartime Hotel

I'm delighted to show you the cover and blurb of my forthcoming book, A New Home at the Wartime Hotel, written as Maisie Thomas.

I hope you love the cover. Left to right, the characters are: Lily, Kitty and Beatrice.

Publication day is March 27th. Here are the links for Kindle and paperback.

And here's the blurb:

Manchester, 1941

Kitty learned early on in her marriage that her husband, Bill Dunbar, isn’t reliable with money. So when they inherit the Dunbar family hotel at the start of the war, she's hopeful that their financial worries are over… until the bailiffs turn up! With Bill away fighting, it’s up to Kitty to turn things around for her family, or risk ruin.

Lily worked as a chambermaid at Dunbar’s before the war. She met Daniel there, but their relationship was complicated by class differences and the disapproval of Daniel’s mother. Now Lily is pregnant – and with Daniel away at sea, she is all alone. When tragedy strikes, will Kitty and Dunbar’s come to her rescue?

Beatrice is in her forties, unmarried, and working in a job that exposes her to the harsh realities of poverty and sacrifice. She wonders whether the war might give her the opportunity to change lives for the better - including her own. But when she's accused of a crime she didn't commit, the future looks bleak... until Kitty makes a surprising suggestion.

Can the community around Dunbar’s Hotel pull together and provide a beacon of hope and resilience, in the dark days of war?