Hotel Vendome
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4.0 • 72 Ratings
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
The Sunday Times Bestseller
When Swiss-born Hugues Martin sees a small, run-down hotel in New York for the rough diamond it is, he transforms it into a beautiful boutique hotel of impeccable elegance, run with the precision and attention to detail he learned through his hotelier training in Europe.
Renowned for its unparalleled service, the Hotel Vendôme soon becomes the ideal New York refuge for the rich and famous, as well as a perfect home for Hugues’ beautiful wife and their young daughter. But when his wife tires of his obsession for the hotel, she walks out on him for a notorious rock star, leaving Hugues a single parent to four-year-old Heloise.
Heloise and her family live happily amid a colourful, exciting and sometimes mysterious milieu of celebrities, socialites, politicians, world travellers and hotel employees – and their inevitable intrigues.
As unexpected challenges arise, the hotel is the centre of their world. And when Heloise grows us, she longs to follow in her father’s footsteps and one day run the Hotel Vendôme. The lessons she learned at his side will carry her through it all, in a story no reader will forget.
Customer Reviews
A total escape
It is a bit ironic to write a review about an author who has written so many books. There is no shortage of craft. Writing what I call an escape story is not easy. As it is not easy to write rom coms. The ‘light harted’ genre demands a number of elements which are all there is this book. There is a frank analysis of the forever difficult relationships between business and private life. The characters are well conceived as all in their way make sense and behave according to their position. The escapism elements are all there: the dream hotel, the chances to reunite private relationships, the generations gaps, the coming of age, the health which nobody can predict or keep under control. And for those who are curious about life in hotels, the book is not very far from reality. Very entertaining, with an offer to dream about anything away from stark, boring day to day life.
Spellbinding
Staying up late and forgetting everything else.