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Episode 37: Hotel Novels

The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast

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The Hotel, a Novel of Simple, Small Pleasures

The stevens family take an annual holiday to a boarding house in bognor, where they've been going for the past 20 years. They are a family of kind of habit and ritual, and they kind of enjoy the fact that they are going back to the same place year in, year out. And i it's a really lovely novel of simple, small pleasures of life's kind of quiet hopes and ambitions and secret fears and concerns. The hotel is quite a significant in the novel, and it sent us around a quite an ordinary family, the Stevens family.

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