Descripción
A historical saga in the manner of Downton Abbey, set in the Grand Hôtel Stockholm, at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Stockholm, 1901. At the Grand Hôtel, everything is in place to host the first Nobel Prize banquet, while management is holding an urgent meeting to deal with the terrible administration that is about to bankrupt the hotel. Until someone mentions a woman's name: Wilhelmina Skogh, owner of several hotels near the train tracks that run across the country. A woman who believes in hard work, discipline, excellence in service, and in women's capacity to exercise responsibilities up till then forbidden to them. Wilhelmina replies to the offer with a letter, where she states the hotel must undertake an important and expensive renovation in order to become profitable. The management accepts her proposal and she moves to Stockholm. We immediately meet the women who will accompany her in her endeavors: Elisabet, old friend and lady of the court, a permanent guest at the hotel; Ottilia, a maid at one of Wilhelmina's hotels, who dreams of working in Stockholm; Margareta, head of the cleaning crew, trapped in an abusive marriage... A group of women who will display throughout the novel their secrets, dreams, and loves... but above all, the ironclad friendship that sustains them.
Author: Ruth Kvarnström-Jones
Publisher: Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A.
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.80w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9788401033940
ISBN10: 8401033942
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | 20th Century | General
- Fiction | Sagas
- Fiction | Women
Stockholm, 1901. At the Grand Hôtel, everything is in place to host the first Nobel Prize banquet, while management is holding an urgent meeting to deal with the terrible administration that is about to bankrupt the hotel. Until someone mentions a woman's name: Wilhelmina Skogh, owner of several hotels near the train tracks that run across the country. A woman who believes in hard work, discipline, excellence in service, and in women's capacity to exercise responsibilities up till then forbidden to them. Wilhelmina replies to the offer with a letter, where she states the hotel must undertake an important and expensive renovation in order to become profitable. The management accepts her proposal and she moves to Stockholm. We immediately meet the women who will accompany her in her endeavors: Elisabet, old friend and lady of the court, a permanent guest at the hotel; Ottilia, a maid at one of Wilhelmina's hotels, who dreams of working in Stockholm; Margareta, head of the cleaning crew, trapped in an abusive marriage... A group of women who will display throughout the novel their secrets, dreams, and loves... but above all, the ironclad friendship that sustains them.
Author: Ruth Kvarnström-Jones
Publisher: Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A.
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.80w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9788401033940
ISBN10: 8401033942
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | 20th Century | General
- Fiction | Sagas
- Fiction | Women
About the Author
Ruth Kvarnström-Jones nació y creció en Gran Bretaña, pero vive en Estocolmo desde hace 30 años. Fue una de las 15 seleccionadas en todo el mundo para formar parte del Curso de Novela de Curtis Brown y es autora de una serie de novelas situadas en Halleholm, un lugar ficticio situado en la costa de Suecia. Las extraordinarias mujeres del Grand Hôtel se inspira en la fascinante vida de Wilhelmina Skogh y en la historia del renombrado Grand Hôtel de Estocolmo.