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XXL-Leseprobe - Hotel du Barry oder das Findelkind in der Suppenschüssel

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London 1919. Seit im Keller des ehrenwerten Hotel du Barry ein lachendes Baby an der Wäscheleine gefunden wurde, besteht kein Hier ist etwas Besonderes im Gange. Prompt beschließt die bunte Belegschaft, die Kleine vor dem Waisenhaus zu bewahren - und hätte das Zimmermädchen Mary das Baby nicht ausgerechnet zum Schlafen in eine silberne Suppenschüssel gelegt, hätte der Hoteldirektor Daniel du Barry vielleicht nie bemerkt, welche wundersame Geschichte sich hier ereignet.

Rührend komisch, dekadent und ein bisschen frivol - eine hinreißende Geschichte für alle, die das Staunen noch nicht verlernt haben.

65 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 1, 2016

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Lesley Truffle

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London-born Australian Lesley Truffle has travelled extensively and worked in London and Japan. At present she’s living in a garret in Melbourne. She’s worked as a secondary teacher, photographer, hotel maid, fringe actor and in art galleries, bars, nightclubs and other jobs too ghastly to mention.

While exhibiting her art photography in Melbourne galleries Lesley realised she wanted to create imaginary stories and interior monologues, and returned to writing.

Her fiction piece 'A Man of Fashion' was published in 'Scarlet Stiletto:The Second Cut' in 2011, and 'Memoir of a Trollop' was performed by Baggage Productions: Madwomen Monologues in 2013. 'Memoir of a Trollop' will be performed again as part of the Madwomen Monologues retrospective in November 2016.

Lesley's first novel, 'Hotel du Barry' was published in 2016 and 'The Scandalous Life of Sasha Torte' will be published by Harper Collins January 2017.

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Comencé a leerlo sin ninguna expectativa y realmente me sorprendió, al comienzo se me hizo algo lento e inconexo sin llegar a conectar con la historia realmente, pero a medida que pasaban las páginas la forma de escribir de Truffle me atrapó, Cat sin dudas se robó mi corazón con su astucia.
Adoré como describía las piezas de arte, las consecuencias de la guerra y la alocada vida de aquellos años. Sin Duda está postulando a ser una de mis mejores lecturas de este año!
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