Description
February, 1929. The Regent Hotel in Birmingham is a place of deception and glamour. Behind its six-storeyed façade, guests sip absinthe cocktails on velvet banquettes, while the hotel’s red-jacketed staff scurry through its lavish corridors to ensure the finest service is always at hand. In the early evening, a psychoanalyst checks in under a pseudonym. Nora Dickinson is young, diligent and ambitious. Though she doesn’t see herself as a liar, she is travelling with an agenda. Having shadowed the famous opera singer Berenice Oxbow from Zurich, she’s determined not to lose sight of her now. But when a terrible snow storm isolates the hotel – and its guests – from the outside world, reality appears to shift. Nora’s grip loosens, and the nightmares she’s worked hard to control begin to bare their teeth.
