Staff Pick
For his intriguing novel, Jonathan Lee uses the 1986 plot to bomb a Brighton Hotel as Margaret Thatcher and her entourage attend a conference. Main characters Moose, the Grand Hotel manager, his daughter Freya, and a young IRA operative, Dan, make up the braided narrative that tells this story. Moose has a health crisis, Freya is lost and in limbo, and Dan swings wildly from steely focus to sloppy drunkenness. Underneath it all, the drive for human connection — at all costs — illuminates, complicates, and undermines every step along the way. Great read! Recommended By Dianah H., Powells.com
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Synopsis
In the fall of 1984, the Grand Hotel in the seaside town of Brighton, England, became ground zero for the attempted assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Nimbly weaving together fact and fiction, comedy and tragedy, here Jonathan Lee vividly reimagines those fateful days from the perspectives of three unforgettable characters a young IRA bomb maker, the deputy hotel manager, and his teenage daughter whose lives will be changed forever by the Prime Minister s visit."