Название: Mrs P’s Book of Secrets
Автор: Lorna Gray
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература
isbn: 9780008368241
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Standing in this room that carried no real hint of warmth or old charm for me, I suddenly knew where the secret lay. ‘Oh,’ I said on a warmer note of dawning understanding, ‘This place is going to be a hotel.’
This was the detail she had omitted to share before. It made her unflinching commitment to the expense of her book make better sense.
You see, I knew the Blaze Hotel. It was near Bristol and it belonged to a chain of hotels that marketed themselves solely upon their panache for occupying a formerly derelict mansion and donning its history like an elegant robe.
Blaze Hotel was terribly near Blaise Castle and traded shamelessly upon all possible connections with that place. Or at least it had done until it had been required during the war to temporarily house engineering officers from the Royal Navy training base.
My husband had been billeted there during his eight weeks of training at HMS Bristol. It had kept the valuable new recruits safely out of range of the terrible blitz that had pounded the city – the same blitz, in fact, that my sister and I had endured for all that time on a daily basis as we had scurried to our respective places of work.
Knowing the tomfoolery of my husband’s fellow seafaring engineers, and the number of men who must have been housed there during the years that followed, I doubted very much that the Blaze Hotel had been returned to its owners in a better state than this place.
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