*drum roll*
THE THOUSAND LIGHTS HOTEL
13th July 2017
It's set on the Italian island of Elba, and is a story told through three people - Kit, Valentino, and Oliviero (guest, hotelier, and chef, respectively). It's a novel full of food, landscape, love, loss, and summer heat.
Since the earliest draft of The Thousand Lights Hotel two quotes have sat at the start of the manuscript, capturing the flavour of the story to come.
‘If
I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.’
Emily Dickinson
‘Be not inhospitable to
strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.’
Inscribed on the wall of Shakespeare
and Company, Paris
- attributed to W.B. Yeats
I can't wait to introduce you to The Thousand Lights Hotel next summer. For now, here's a pictorial aperitivo, to whet your appetite, I hope...
