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Woooooooo-hooooooo. Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all five women find themselves in... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Sara Wilby: A teenage hotel chambermaid at the Global Hotel who is the main character.
- Elspeth Freeman: An older homeless woman suffering from tuberculosis.
- Lise: A receptionist for the Global Hotel.
- Penny: A reporter and journalist, Penny is a paying guest to the Global Hotel, there to review its services.
- Clare: Sara's younger sister.
Quotes edit
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“Pain travels all round my body sticking little stakes into it like I am a new territory that has to be claimed.”
Lise -
“There is a kind of poetry, bad or good, in everything, everywhere we look.”
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“There was something about her; obliqueness in the eyes, tautness around the mouth, deliberation in the way of sitting, all of which suggested she had been unplugged, she was running on back-up power, a kind of energy that was finite.”
Penny
First Sentence edit
Woooooooo-hooooooo what a fall what a soar what a plummet what a dash into dark into light what a plunge what a glide thud crash what a drop what a rush what a swoop what a fright what a mad hushed skirl what a smash mush mash-up broke and gashed what a heart in my mouth what an end.
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Page Count: 256
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Page Count: 256
Awards edit
- Man Booker Prize (Finalist, 2001, shortlist)
- Orange Prize for Fiction (Finalist, 2001)
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- Dewey: 823.914
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