The Lost and Found Hotel by Caroline Young is a wonderful story about finding your way after realizing the course you were on was wrong! The setting is an old hotel on the edge of the sea in Devon. While the book suggests that it is a multi-timeline book, the book follows a single time line with memories built into the story at various times in the book. Those memories do bring the past to light as how it interacts with the present.
The main character is Rose Brownlow. Her mother owns/runs The Wavecrest. Rose couldn’t wait to leave when she was old enough and she forged her own corporate life in London with a husband and two children. She and the kids took a summer to help her mom with Wavecrest, it becomes even clearer that her life is not making her happy. In Devon, her life might be better, but it means leaving what she thought should be her life.
I love how the book presents the various choices that Rose could take without spelling them out until the end. It doesn’t hurt that her first boyfriend is there too. There is the hope of a simpler/ less posh and judgemental life just over the horizon that really spoke to me.
The Lost and Found Hotel by Caroline Young was a lovely read full of hope, love and family.
This ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
