Book description
'Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if
in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with
proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the
revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behaviour no longer seem to apply.'
All of the following is true. Only the names have been changed to
protect the guilty. All the anecdotes, the stories, the characters,
the situations, the highs, the lows, the scams, the drugs, the misery,
the love, the death and the insanity are exactly as was told by
Anonymous - someone who has spent his whole career working in hotels
at the heart of London's luxury hotel industry. However, for legal
reasons, the stories now take place in a fictitious hotel known as
Hotel Babylon. More than a decade is compressed into a day. Everything
else is as it should be. The rich spend money, the hotel makes money
and the chambermaids still fight the bellboys over a two-pound coin.
It's just another twenty-four hours in an expensive London hotel.
Imogen Edwards-Jones is the co-author of the bestselling
Hotel Babylon,
Air Babylon and Fashion Babylon as well as author of
The Stork Club and The Taming of Eagles. Her fiction
includes My Canap
é Hell, Shagpile, The Wendy House and Tuscany for
Beginners. Her new book, Beach Babylon, is now available
from Bantam Press. Imogen lives in west London with her husband and
their baby daughter.
Anonymous is the manager of a luxurious central London hotel.
