Meet Beatrice Inkerman

In my previous two blogs, I introduced you to Kitty and Lily from A New Home at the Wartime Hotel. Today - meet Beatrice.

Beatrice Inkerman spends her life making the best of things, which isn’t always easy when you do the job she does. She doesn’t let herself see how tough things are for her. Hard-working, capable, dependable… or is she just plain boring?

The chance of war work is dangled in front of her, but will she be deemed suitable? And what about all those children – the ones who remind her of herself when she was a girl? Can she really bring about much-needed change in their difficult circumstances?

Beatrice’s hitherto predictable life is about to get very interesting.

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A New Home at the Wartime Hotel, book 1 in my new Dunbar's Hotel series, will be published on March 27th.

Blurb:

1940, Manchester

Kitty learned early on in her marriage that her husband, Bill Dunbar, isn’t reliable with money. So she’s hopeful, when they inherit the Dunbar family hotel at the start of the war, that their financial worries will be over… until the bailiffs turn up! With Bill working hard in the Auxiliary Fire Service to protect Manchester from German bombing raids, it’s up to Kitty to turn things around for her family.

Lily worked as a chambermaid at Dunbar’s before the war. But her relationship with Daniel, a merchant seaman, was complicated by class differences and the disapproval of Daniel’s mother. Now Lily discovers she’s pregnant – and with Daniel away at sea she faces the judgement and scorn of wider society all alone. Will Kitty and Dunbar’s come to her rescue?

Beatrice is in her forties, unmarried, and working to support households with elderly or infirm relatives: a job that exposes her to the harsh realities of poverty and sacrifice. But when she bumps into an old flame at Dunbar’s hotel, she wonders whether there’s an opportunity to change her own life for the better.

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