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A New Home at the Wartime Hotel is going on tour with Rachel's Random Resources, if you wish to participate please contact me on rachel@rachelsrandomresources.com with your name, blog name, preferred post type and availability. 

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A New Home at the Wartime Hotel by Maisie Thomas

 

Genre: Saga

Tour Dates: 27th March - 2nd April 2025

Publication Date: 27th March 2025

Publisher: Boldwood Books

Standalone First Book in the Dunbar Hotel series

Formats available: Netgalley Widget

Types of post available: Review Only

The first in a nostalgic and heart-warming WWII saga series by bestselling author Maisie Thomas, that readers of Ellie Dean and Lesley Eames will love.

 

Manchester, 1941

 

Kitty learned early on in her marriage that her husband, Bill Dunbar, isn’t reliable with money. So when they inherit the Dunbar family hotel at the start of the war, she's hopeful that their financial worries are over… until the bailiffs turn up! With Bill away fighting, it’s up to Kitty to turn things around for her family, or risk ruin

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Lily worked as a chambermaid at Dunbar’s before the war. She met Daniel there, but their relationship was complicated by class differences and the disapproval of Daniel’s mother. Now Lily is pregnant – and with Daniel away at sea, she is all alone. When tragedy strikes, will Kitty and Dunbar’s come to her rescue?

 

Beatrice is in her forties, unmarried, and working in a job that exposes her to the harsh realities of poverty and sacrifice. She wonders whether the war might give her the opportunity to change lives for the better - including her own. But when she's accused of a crime she didn't commit, the future looks bleak... until Kitty makes a surprising suggestion.

 

Can the community around Dunbar’s hotel pull together and provide a beacon of hope and resilience, in the dark days of war?

About Maisie Thomas


Maisie Thomas is the author of the bestselling Railway Girls saga series about the brave women and girls who worked on Britain's railways in WW2. Maisie also writes as Susanna Bavin and Polly Heron. As Polly, she writes the 1920s saga series, The Surplus Girls. As Susanna she has written four stand-alone sagas and is also a new WW2 saga series, The Home Front Girls, of which the first three books will be published in 2024.


Maisie was born and brought up in Manchester, which provides the location for her Railway Girls novels. She now lives on the beautiful North Wales coast with her husband and their two rescue cats. They have enjoyed many holidays chugging up and down the UK’s heritage steam railways and their favourite is the Severn Valley Railway.


​Follow Maisie Thomas


Facebook: @MaisieThomasAuthor

Twitter: @maisiethomas99

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Blog Tour Schedule


Maximum 3 stops per day.  Confirmed blogs will appear here. 


27th March

  1. karen_loves_reading

  2. @teaandbooks90

  3. iheartbooks.blog

28th March

  1. Books, Life and Everything


29th March

  1. Bookish Jottings


30th March

  1. Because I said so -- and other adventures in Parenting


31st March


1st April

  1. @Leona.OMahony

  2. Jeanette's Thoughts


2nd April

  1. YorkshireCarly’s Book Reviews


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