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Hotel Portofino

Hotel Portofino

Thank you Blackstone Publishing for this gifted copy.

Iโ€™m so excited to start ๐™ƒ๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ก ๐™‹๐™ค๐™ง๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™›๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ค and I even did a little happy dance when it arrived. This is a book Iโ€™ve been anticipating and am quite excited that PBS is making an adaptation. Historical fiction is my favorite genre and this book is set during the exciting Roaring 20s!

๐—ฆ๐˜†๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜€: Hotel Portofino has been open for only a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its owner Bella Ainsworth. Her high-class guests are demanding and hard to please. And she's being targeted by a scheming and corrupt local politician, who threatens to drag her into the red-hot cauldron of Mussolini's Italy.

To make matters worse, her marriage is in trouble, and her children are still struggling to recover from the repercussions of the Great War. All eyes are on the arrival of a potential love match for her son Lucian, but events don't go to plan, which will have far reaching consequences for the whole family.

Set in the breathtakingly beautiful Italian Riviera, Hotel Portofino is a story of personal awakening at a time of global upheaval and of the liberating influence of Italy's enchanting culture, climate, and cuisine on British "innocents abroad," perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and The Crown.

Today is another day of nasty weather here in North Dakota. Right now the roads are snow and ice covered so Iโ€™m not sure Iโ€™ll even make it to work. I swear this has been our worst winter for traveling anywhere since weโ€™ve moved here. So if Iโ€™m stuck home I guess that means I get to read more, and Iโ€™m also going to get some meal planning done for this weekendโ€ฆ I should probably do some cleaning too. Iโ€™ll share the recipes I pick out in tomorrowโ€™s post!

๐Ÿ’ฌ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฏ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐š๐ฏ๐จ๐ซ?

Weekend Reading

Weekend Reading

Never Leave Me

Never Leave Me