{"product_id":"9781789543872","title":"Hokey Pokey","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Mascarenhas, Kate \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 14\/03\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 336 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781789543872,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFebruary, 1929. The Regent Hotel in Birmingham is a place of deception and glamour. Behind its six-storeyed façade, guests sip absinthe cocktails on velvet banquettes, while the staff navigate the hotel’s labyrinthine ‘below stairs’ to ensure the finest service is always at hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early evening, psychoanalyst Nora Dickinson checks in under a false name. It’s unlike Nora to deceive – her aversion to lying borders on the pathological – but she’s travelling with an agenda. Having shadowed the famous opera singer, Berenice Oxbow, from Zurich, she’s determined not to lose sight of her now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when a terrible snow storm isolates the hotel – and its guests – from the outside world, reality appears to shift. Nora’s grip loosens, and the nightmares she’s worked hard to control begin to bare their teeth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKate Mascarenhas’s latest novel offers her readers a horrifying ride through murder, madness and the darkestrecesses of the mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A delicious piece of art deco Gothic' Natalie Marlow‘Dark, complex and beautifully plotted' Rebecca Netley‘Immersive, unique... with a dark supernatural core’ Essie Fox‘An atmospheric, claustrophobic novel... mesmerising’ Elizabeth Lee\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42448141680684,"sku":"9781789543872","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/products\/9781789543872.jpg?v=1705743029","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9781789543872","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}