Dimensions
130 x 197 x 18mm
The hotel has stood on Dublin's quays since the 1920s, but its glory days have long since passed it by. It's decrepit now - the haunt of weekend-breakers and tourists who don't know any better. Most of the guests and staff the reader meets are escaping from something . . .
Whoever is behind the middle-aged man facing his midlife crisis, a cat napper tying to order an acceptable meal for his yowling victim or two sisters drunkenly disinterring their past, they all share a common sense of humour. That liking for witty one-liners, or for a contrariness which encourages a woman to tell a man picked up in the bar that she is a nun, is extremely funny.
