The Honeymoon Hotel By Hester Browne

[amazon_link id=”1782065695″ target=”_blank” ][/amazon_link]’The Honeymoon Hotel’ is the latest book by Hester Browne.

The Bonneville Hotel is the best kept secret in Mayfair: its art deco suites and glittering ballrooms a former home-away-from-home for royalty and film stars alike. Recent years haven’t been kind, but thanks to Events Manager Rosie, the Bonneville is reclaiming some of its old cachet as a chic retro-glam wedding venue.

While Rosie’s weddings are the ultimate in romance, Rosie herself isn’t; she’s focused on the details, not the dramas. But when the hotel owner appoints his eccentric son Joe to the Bonneville staff, Rosie finds herself up against an unprecedented challenge: a rival whose predilection for the unconventional could derail not only Rosie’s own career, but the most elaborate, high-profile wedding the Bonneville has ever seen.

Once again I found myself walking along reading another one of Hester’s book only looking up to make sure I hadn’t stepped into oncoming traffic or dog poo.

It’s another romantic and heartwarming story about Rosie who is an events planner at The Bonneville Hotel, one of London’s top hotels, underpaid and overworked, she negotiates a plan with her slightly stressed boss Laurence, that if she meets a certain budget and get the prestigious plenty of press, then she will become general manager. This seems like an easy enough task for Rosie to undertake as most young ladies dream of holding their weddings in the hotels where icons of the 1950’s would regularly stay but then Joe, Laurence’s son turns up for some training ands manages to convince a lot of people about their motives and ideas behind marriage.

Rosie is in a comfortable relationship with food critic Dominic, she enjoys their food tasting nights out and thinks that it’s only right that the relationship progresses and is keen to move in together. Excited at the prospect of living together and organising so many dreams weddings, Rosie’s life is on a role especially when and upcoming model Flora Thornbury’s decides that she wants her impending nuptials to take place at the hotel, thus giving Rosie her well deserved promotion. But Flora has other ideas and decides that she wants Joe to help with her wedding, as she loves his crazy suggestions and only Joe can rein in so whilst Joe deals with bridezilla, Rosie is left to deal with the practicalities of the wedding.

Set against the regal settings of the hotel, the story contains a cast of people that really make for entertaining reading. Rosie, is a strong woman who likes to be organised and in control, she wants all her brides to have their dream day but that becomes difficult when outspoken Joe is there to criticise and point out things. I loved Joe, handsome with a sense of humour, him and Rosie clashed regularly and when they did, it usually left me giggling. Other interesting characters in the book were Laurence, Joe’s father and Rosie boss who was a bit of a hypochondriac and a romantic at heart and Dominic, Rosie’s outspoken food critic boyfriend, who was extremely arrogant in parts.

Deliciously fun and compelling, ‘The Honeymoon Hotel’ is another captivating story which is beautifully written, filled with humour and wit, it was almost impossible to put down, sit back and enjoy wedding season without the stress of lifting a finger.

You can buy [amazon_link id=”1782065695″ target=”_blank” ] The Honeymoon Hotel from Amazon [/amazon_link]and is available to buy from good bookshops.