Weeping Women Hotel
- ISBN-10
- 1848948115
- ISBN-13
- 9781848948112
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-05-17
- Publisher
- Hachette UK
- Author
- Alexei Sayle
Description
'A funny, frightening book that is also refreshingly bonkers' Guardian 'A brilliant writer...a great novelist' Richard and Judy Northern girl Harriet lives and works on a London estate which is a battleground between the white working class plus the immigrants versus the newly arrived middle class focaccia-eaters. Unhappy and overweight, she hires a personal trainer who lures her into joining the martial arts class he runs. There she learns the regime of the completely phoney martial arts master and embarks on a spiritual and literal journey which leads her to a hotel opposite the railway station at Crewe, the Weeping Women Hotel. 'If you like your weirdness with warmth and wit, Sayle's your man' Metro
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