Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel (by Ruth Hogan)

I read a novel by Ruth Hogan nearly four years ago, and liked it so much that I put another of her books on my wishlist. I was given ‘Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel’ for Christmas 2019… and it has sat on my to-be-read shelf for all this time. I finally picked it up to read a few days ago - and what a delight it was!
Tilda is the main character. She’s forty-six, as we learn early in the book, and narrates the story in the first person, starting when she’s beginning to sort out her late mother’...