Love on the rocks
By: Veronica Henry
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9781405617383; 9781405617390
Subjects: Seaside resorts; Fiction; Hotelkeepers
Description: When Lisa Jones and her boyfriend George take on the run-down Rocks Hotel, they aim to do for Mariscombe what Rick Stein did for Padstow (even though neither of them is quite sure what to do with a red mullet) and set up a chic maritime retreat. But renovating a hotel is about more than stripped wooden floors and Egyptian cotton sheets, particularly when the locals are shifty and unhelpful. Especially Bruno Thorne, the tall, dark and surly owner of the nearby Mariscombe Hotel, where life is one long holiday - for the staff, anyway. Amid the sandscastles and surf, passions run high as ghosts of the past come out of the freshly painted woodwork. A little midsummer madness leaves Mariscombe's inhabitants floating on a tide of infatuation, sending some of them rather too close to the rocks.
Notes: Originally published: London: Michael Joseph, 2006.