Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who loved fizzy drinks, naughty words and liked playing with ghosts and matches. When her beloved father suddenly disappeared, she and her fragile, difficult mother moved into Queenie's Malone's magnificent Paradise Hotel in Brighton. With its endearing and loving family of misfits, including the exuberant and compassionate Queenie herself, it was the home Tilly loved the most. But then Tilly's mother sent her off to boarding school with little explanation and no warning, and she lost her beloved chosen family. Now an adult, her estranged mother dies, and Tilda returns to Brighton. With the help of the still-dazzling Queenie, she sets about unraveling the mystery of her exile from The Paradise Hotel, only to discover that her mother was not the woman she thought she knew at all and that 'sit's never too late to write your own happy ending
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