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The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic - Hardcover

Lamb, Christina

 
9780008487546: The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0008487545 ISBN 13: 9780008487546
Verlag: William Collins, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

‘There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or moving as Lamb’s’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

A story of poverty, generosity and worlds colliding in modern Britain

When Covid-19 hit the UK and lockdown was declared, Mike Matthews wondered how his four-star hotel would survive. Then the council called. The British government had launched a programme called ‘ Everyone In ’ and 33 rough sleepers – many of whom had spent decades on the street – needed beds.The Prince Rupert Hotel would go on to welcome well over 100 people from this community, offering them shelter, good food and a comfy bed during the pandemic.

This is the story of how that luxury hotel spent months locked down with their new guests, many of them traumatised, addicts or suffering from mental illness. As a world-leading foreign correspondent turning her attention to her own country for the first time, Christina Lamb chronicles how extreme situations were handled and how shocking losses were suffered, how romances emerged between guests and how people grappled with their pasts together.

Unexpected and profound, heart-warming and heartbreaking, this is a tale that gives a panoramic insight into modern Britain in all its failures, and people in all their capacities for kindness – even in the most difficult of times.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Christina Lamb is US editor for the Sunday Times. In 2009 she was awarded the prestigious Prix Bayeux Calvados for her reporting from Afghanistan. She won the Foreign Press Association Award for Story of the Year in 2007, and was also named Foreign Correspondent of the Year. She is the author of the best-selling ‘The Africa House’, ‘The Sewing Circles of Herat’, and ‘I Am Malala’, co-authored with Malala Yousafzai.

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Verlag
William Collins
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0008487545
ISBN 13 
9780008487546
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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