Hopeful Hearts 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.
Hopeful Hearts at the Wartime Hotel by Maisie Thomas
Genre: Saga
Tour Dates: 15th - 21st September 2025
Publication Date: 15th September 2025
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Standalone Second Book in the Dunbar Hotel series
Formats available: Netgalley Widget
Types of post available: Review Only
Manchester, 1942.
When Kitty Dunbar was forced to confront her husband’s debts and close the family hotel, she transformed Dunbar’s into a storage business for bombed-out families. But with her daughter to support, and relishing her new independence, Kitty is keen to come up with more ways to use the once prestigious hotel.
Sharing her home are former chambermaid Lily, and kind-hearted welfare worker Beatrice, both haunted by past loss. Together, the three women create a new kind of family in the heart of the Manchester Blitz: one built on respect and resilience. When Kitty suggests hosting wedding receptions in the old dining room, her friends are happy and willing to lend a hand – and help to serve ‘Dunbar’s Wartime Wedding Punch’!
But when Lily meets a handsome doctor, and Beatrice comes face to face with an old flame, will hearts finally be mended, or broken once more?
While war rages around them, can these three women find the courage to keep fighting for their dreams?
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
Blog Tour Schedule
Maximum 3 stops per day. Confirmed blogs will appear here.
15th September
Books, Life and Everything
Sharon Beyond The Books
16th September
Leanne bookstagram
Scotsbookworm
17th September
Sarah Can't Stop Reading
18th September
karen_loves_reading
19th September
Bookish Jottings
20th September
@Leona.OMahony
21st September
Chez Maximka