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The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless - A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic (Hardcover)
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The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless - A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R444
Discovery Miles 4 440
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'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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