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A review by bookgirl4ever
Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan
4.0
Sweet story of a difficult mother/daughter relationship
A quirky seven year old who can see the dead and has a difficult relationship with her mentally ill mother, turns into a compulsive women who still sees ghosts and believes her mother hated her because she sent her off to boarding school at a young age. After her mother died, Tilda moves into her mom's flat in the same English town in which she spent her happiest years while living at Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel. We get chapters from adult Tilda's perspective, and chapters told from her child's sweet perspective.
One thing I've learned from reading other stories featuring mother/daughter relationships is that these relationships are more complex than either person realizes. This book has some funny parts, romantic parts, tender parts, and sad parts.
A quirky seven year old who can see the dead and has a difficult relationship with her mentally ill mother, turns into a compulsive women who still sees ghosts and believes her mother hated her because she sent her off to boarding school at a young age. After her mother died, Tilda moves into her mom's flat in the same English town in which she spent her happiest years while living at Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel. We get chapters from adult Tilda's perspective, and chapters told from her child's sweet perspective.
One thing I've learned from reading other stories featuring mother/daughter relationships is that these relationships are more complex than either person realizes. This book has some funny parts, romantic parts, tender parts, and sad parts.