No Angel Hotel, Chapter 01 | read by Joyce Greenaway by anneaylor published on 2012-04-19T17:37:59Z This is the opening of No Angel Hotel, a story about love, obsession and passion, about the man Elkie Bonner cannot forget. This is the night they met. The novel is available on Kindle, Amazon UK & US and from www.barebonebooks.com Genre Fiction Comment by anneaylor For most of us, there is one person we can never stop loving. For Elkie Bonner, a grocer’s daughter from Northern Ireland, it’s Ivan Packenham, the sophisticated son of a landowner in County Londonderry who’s home for a visit. In a drunken moment, he asks her to ‘run away’ with him to Swinging London. Praise for No Angel Hotel ‘Anne Aylor’s first novel is a finely crafted and very moving exploration of the youthful pain and the lasting passion of love... Aylor’s sensitive writing is a quiet reflection on the fragility of human feelings that leaves us with a lump in the throat.’ —Washington Post Book World ‘With a spare elegance that lives up to her publisher’s comparison—with the romances of Jean Rhys—Aylor’s first novel presents a passionate, gloomy story of abandoned innocence and abused love.’ —Kirkus Reviews ‘Anne Aylor has produced a novel of spellbinding intensity... Written in brief, ephemeral passages as if a more prolonged focus would scorch the page, this is an exhilarating first novel.’ —Yorkshire Post ‘Sexually frank, and with a touch of the faux-naif, Anne Aylor has a good eye, especially for the telling detail which is all her own.’ —London Evening Standard ‘Anne Aylor has produced that literary rarity, a brilliant first novel.’ —Pittsburgh Press 2012-04-19T20:53:18Z
