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Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel

Sophie Green

Start date: April 1, 2025

Finish date: April 30, 2025

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Aug 01, 2024 Brenda rated it it was amazing

Shelves: arc, 2024-release, 3000-2024, own-read, aussie-authors, sent-by-publisher, reviewing-by-request, contemporary-fiction

Joan hung up the phone after her husband of thirty five years had called. She had had enough. Packing a suitcase, she jumped into her car and headed down the highway away from Sydney, away from the life and person she'd been for so long. Joan felt smothered, the passions she'd had decades ago had been buried. As she headed to Victoria, and the Mornington Peninsula, she looked forward to seeing the Duchess Hotel again. The Duchess held special memories for Joan, and she was certain she could find ...more

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Aug 16, 2024 Helen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: borrowed-from-library

WOW what a beautiful story, I am not sure where to start, I absolutely loved this one from start to finish, Sophie Green has never disappointed me and this one is I think her best yet, I loved the woman in this story, getting to know them and feeling all of the emotions, this one is about friendship, love, marriage and life and in my opinion is a must read, come along back to 1999 and get to know Joan, Frances, Kirrily and Alison.

Joan is middle age married mother and grandmother, after a phone c WOW what a beautiful story, I am not sure where to start, I absolutely loved this one from start to finish, Sophie Green has never disappointed me and this one is I think her best yet, I loved the woman in this story, getting to know them and feeling all of the emotions, this one is about friendship, love, marriage and life and in my opinion is a must read, come along back to 1999 and get to know Joan, Frances, Kirrily and Alison.

Joan is middle age married mother and grandmother, after a phone call from her husband Isaac one day she decides that it is time that she thought about herself instead of everyone else, it has been too long since she has picked up a paint brush, thirty five years of being there for them it is now time for herself and she packs her things and takes off to Victoria to the Duchess Hotel on the Mornington Peninsula to the place that holds many memories from her childhood, will this trip see her find herself?

Frances, is seventy five and is doing her best to avoid getting older she lives very close to the Duchess Hotel and visits every day, here she feels real and alive, she has made friends with many of the staff mainly the barman Shane, she has a son Keith and daughter Alison.

Alison is married with two children her home has been turned upside down with the arrival of her husband鈥檚 first son and she is spending as much time with her mother, Frances looking for love that she feels always went to her terrible brother.

Kirrily, is married to Connor with two young children one who needs constant medical attention, life is hard, she works at the Duchess Hotel and is struggling with life at the moment will there be something that turns her life around?

Joan is soon becoming close friends with Frances and is soon painting and drawing again her life is opening up and when soon she seems to be holding art classes that bring these woman together, life is opening for them all, life is not easy but together can they help each other? Will Joan stay or will she move back to Sydney?

These woman of different generations open up to each other the drawing and painting help them express their feelings and the friendships grow and soon Art Hour at the Duchess hotel is what they all look forward to each week, come along and meet them I am sure you will love them and this story as much as I did.

I do highly recommend this one, it was one that was hard to put down.
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Sep 05, 2024 Catsalive rated it really liked it

Shelves: aww, 2024

An enjoyable read, populated by engaging, believable characters. A lovely tale of women supporting each other, with a satisfying conclusion - not a perfect HEA ending but one with a real sense of personal growth for each woman & a feeling of continuity.

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Aug 17, 2024 Rina rated it really liked it

4.5 stars.

Mornington Peninsula, 1999. Joan has checked into the grand old Duchess Hotel to find herself again after thirty-five years of being a wife, mum and now grandmother. Frances is avoiding her self-interested son by escaping to the warmth of the Duchess where the hotel staff treat her like the person she still is. Meanwhile Frances's daughter, Alison, is hoping to finally prove to her mother that she's just as worthy of love as her brother. New to the Duchess, hotel maid Kirrily is feelin ...more

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