The Pink Hotel
Anna Stothard(Author)
Alma Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 18. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-84688-131-2 (ISBN)
Description
A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Mandy, from whom she had been separated in her childhood. After stealing a suitcase of letters, clothes and photographs from her mum's bedroom at the top of a hotel on Venice Beach, the girl spends her summer travelling around Los Angeles returning love letters and photographs to the men who had known her mother. As she discovers more about Mandy's past and tries to re-enact her life, she comes to question the foundations of her own personality.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Surrey
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 153 mm
Width: 134 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84688-131-2 (9781846881312)
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Person
Anna was born in London. She has written weekly columns in the Observer and the Sunday Telegraph, among other freelance journalism. Her first novel, Isabel and Rocco, was published in 2004. She did her undergraduate degree at Oxford, then moved to Los Angeles where she was awarded a screenwriting scholarship with the Masters programme at the American Film Institute. While studying she lived in a surreal mock-German castle in Little Armenia and worked on film sets for two years - script supervising, production design departments - and on finishing her MA she returned to London. She is currently working in London and writing her third novel.