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Hotel Sorrento by Hannie Rayson
4 men, 4 women
Author of: Competitive Tenderness,Falling From Grace, Inheritance, Leave It Till Monday, Life After George, Mary, Please Return To Sender, Two Brothers, Room To Move, Wall Street Creche.
Hilary lives in seaside Sorrento with her father and sixteen year old son Troy. Hilary has sacrificed much to look after her aging Dad so it is with some trepidation that she welcomes her sister Pippa, who is visiting from New York, and her sister Meg who returns from England with her English husband. These three sisters, who have been reunited after ten years in different worlds, have to come to terms with personal loss, sacrifice, infidelity and honour. Interspersed within the walls of a family who are already struggling to survive harmoniously it is Meg's semi-autobiographical novel, recently short-listed for the Booker prize, which further strains relationships.
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