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Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel

By: Sophie Green
Narrated by: Fiona Macleod
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 A warm-hearted novel about friendship, fresh starts and finding yourself from Top Ten bestselling author Sophie Green

Mornington Peninsula, 1999. All Joan ever wanted was to be a painter, but after thirty-five years of marriage, she finds she is simply a wife, mother and good citizen. On a whim, she escapes to the grand Duchess Hotel to find herself.

At the Duchess, Frances drops by most days to escape her daughter, Alison, who seems intent on putting her in a home, while hotel maid Kirrily is struggling to balance work, family and her dreams.

When Joan decides to pick up a brush and start painting again, she inspires Frances and Kirrily - and, eventually, Alison - to join her. Over canvas, conversation and creativity the women learn to hold onto their dreams and live life on their own terms.

'A great book club pick [for] fans of Elizabeth Strout's Lucy by the Sea, Meg Bignell's The Angry Women's Choir and Joanna Nell's Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year' BOOKS+PUBLISHING

'Deftly crafted by an author who knows how to conjure her characters, where to put them and which stories they will tell to evince a swathe of emotions in each of us' LIVING ARTS CANBERRA©2024 Sophie Green (P)2024 Hachette Australia Audio Friendship Genre Fiction Small Town & Rural Heartfelt
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What a lovely & so well written story of life as women mainly & how we are perceived to want to continually live our life. Plus the misconceptions we make of folks we meet along our way of living our life & changing our lives to suit our soul. 🚐

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this book was an easy listen and great to have on while I worked, the characters were interesting and some good plot points. may have been slightly over filled with characters as it was hard to really warm to them and embrace their story.

cute story, easy listen

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I struggled to feel connected to the characters and the story, it was as if there was information about them, but a lack of knowing them. This is my 3rd book by this author but not my favourite.

Not my favourite

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Characters robotic. bored out of my brain. Reader read slowly so I had the impression that she thought listeners were hearing impaired.

did AI write this?

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I’ve enjoyed other titles by this author, but this title is going nowhere.
I can’t finish it.
Disappointed.

I’ve tried to stick with it.

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I’m sad to say that this book bored me so much. The characters were meh. Don’t understand why everyone was so intrigued by the character Joan.

I expected a storyline

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