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Journey to a magical hotel in the Swiss Alps in this spellbinding historical romance blending mystery, art, romance and time travel

‘A captivating tapestry of love, tragedy, and time.’ Cassandra Clare, bestselling author of Swordcatcher
‘An exquisite, fantastical puzzle box of a novel.’ Kelly Link, bestselling author of The Book of Love
‘Beautiful and bittersweet time travel fantasy’ Publishers’ Weekly
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‘Have you travelled a long way?’ she asked carefully.
A smile twitched at the corner of his mouth. ‘Well, yes,” he said slowly. ‘Yes, you could say that. But it was worth the wait.’

London, 2015

When reclusive art appraiser Eve Shaw shakes the hand of a silver-haired gentleman in her London office, the warmth of his palm sends a spark through her.

His name is Max Everly – curiously, the same name as Eve’s favourite composer, born one hundred sixteen years prior. And she can’t shake the feeling that she’s held his hand before . . . but where, and when?

The White Octopus Hotel, 1935

Decades earlier, high in the snowy Swiss Alps, Eve and a young Max Everly wander the winding halls of the grand belle epoque White Octopus Hotel, lost in time.

Each of them has been through the trenches – Eve in a family accident and Max on the battlefields of the Great War – but for an impossible moment, love and healing are just a room away . . . if only they have the courage to step through the door.

_________________________________READERS LOVE THE WHITE OCTOPUS HOTEL
‘Five gloriously mind-bending, time-traveling stars from me!’

‘Gorgeous GORGEOUS book. I’m in love’

‘I’ll be thinking about this one for a long time.’

‘An exciting, touching, and hopeful magical love story’

‘Alexandra Bell owns a slice of my heart.’

Publisher Review

Effortlessly weaves mystery, romance, and a hint of magic into a captivating tapestry of love, tragedy, and time. * Cassandra Clare, No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sword Catcher and The Shadowhunter Chronicles * Beautiful and bittersweet . . . The convincing, emotional love story, lavish settings, and a wealth of spooky side characters make this sing. * Publishers’ Weekly * An exquisite, fantastical puzzle box of a novel in which love, art, and magic are inescapably bound up with the trauma of childhood loss and war. * Kelly Link, bestselling author of The Book of Love * A delightful read for lovers of time-slip fiction, vintage aesthetics, and whimsical mysteries. * Library Journal * The White Octopus Hotel is not like anything you’ve ever read before. It’s a completely fresh, brilliantly imaginative way of welcoming us, with all our fear, grief, and guilt, into a fabulous, unpredictable, enchanting world where love is the magic that transforms us all. * Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Summer Light on Nantucket * I may have cried while reading this in public. But that’s just proof of how good it is! * Crime Reads *