All Change at the Beach Hotel

How wonderful to spend a holiday on the beachfront!  It can be relaxing and invigorating at the same time.  But it is a whole different story when you work at one.  It's no vacation!

Times are difficult.  Many women are taking the jobs men occupied before WW1.  Lili left her hometown with hope for a better future.  She was hired as a chambermaid at the hotel but as time went on she found herself in many different positions. She became very important in the day to day operations of the hotel.  

Lili is faithful and loyal.  But there are times that it isn't reciprocated.  Lili will make sacrifices that will completely change the course of her life.

I enjoyed getting to know all the characters who worked at the hotel as well as the guests.  Some were delightful while others were difficult.

I love reading books from this era.  My great grandfather served in WW1 with  British Forces.  I can't imagine the anxiety and pain my great grandmother must have felt when he was away at war and she was left with 5 children.  He died in Egypt in 1917. His body was never returned. My grandmother was only 2 years old. 

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Meet the Author Monday — Francesca Burgess

Book Title: All Change at the Beach Hotel

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Author bio: Francesca has enjoyed making up stories since she was a child, largely influenced by a Welsh mother who was good at improvised story telling.

Writing both under her maiden name, Francesca Capaldi, and her married name, Francesca Burgess, she is the author of short stories published in the UK and abroad, and several pocket novels. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and the Society of Women Writers and Journalists.

The first novel in the Wartime in the Valleys series, Heartbreak in the Valleys, was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Historical Award 2021. Both the Valleys series and her new Beach Hotel series are published by Hera Books.

Francesca was born and brought up on the Sussex coast, but currently lives in Kent with her family and a cat called Lando Calrission.

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All Change at the Beach Hotel

Can she choose between her duty and her heart?

While World War One changes the country beyond measure, with food becoming scarce and Britain’s young men being called up to foreign battlefields, it is harder than ever to keep the grand Beach Hotel in Littlehampton running smoothly.

Waitress Lili Probert, a young woman who escaped her demanding family in Wales in search of a new life in Sussex, has seen her hard work rewarded at the Beach Hotel, but hides heartbreak behind her sunny personality. Her sweetheart, Norman, is missing in action and has been presumed dead, but she cannot give up hope that he may be found.

But when she meets injured soldier Rhodri, a fellow Welshman now living near Littlehampton, she fights hard to ignore her growing attraction for him, torn between her feelings for him and her loyalty to the man she thought she’d spend her life with.

But her emotions run ever higher when she suddenly receives a call from home; her mother is gravely ill and Lili is needed for her care. Returning to Wales, Lili must make a difficult choice. Follow her dreams and make her own life, or return to the place she tried so hard to escape?

Torn between her duty and her heart, Lili faces her own battle far from the conflicts in Europe…

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