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ADVANCE INFORMATION

Anna Gallo’s Lily

Sue Morris

KEY SELLING POINTS

Set in West Yorkshire in the 1960s, the novel has a strong sense of place and time.
Leaves readers with a greater sense of hope and the possibility of unlikely
friendships.
Will appeal to fans of Isabel Allende, Elif Shefak, Natalie Ginzburg, Claire Keegan and Simone de Beauvoir.

In the mid-sixties, Lily, an unusually evocative Bed and Breakfast, re-imagined as the town’s first and only
Italian-styled guesthouse, set in the hilly landscapes of West Yorkshire, opens to its first five guests as
Anna Gallo, the establishment’s unlikely, but proud owner opens her doors. Told with a great sense of wit,
eloquence and eccentricity, childhood memories, dreams and the fortunes of the first five guests who
stay at Lily’s are
eventually cast as the story meanders and unfolds with surprising twists and hidden secrets, as the story
finally closes.
We meet Big and Little Stan, coffee manufacturer and gifted twelve-year old son; Chance, an aristocrat;
Marybeth, a solitary figure with a love of poisonous mushrooms and owner of five idiosyncratic dogs, and
Teresa, the first guest, who never leaves.

Childhood memories and family ties delve into the intricate lives of diverse characters combining to
ignite the story with the possibility of long-lasting friendships. This forms the heart and soul of the book.

Sue Morris, after an early career as an artist, became an English teacher for a period of over thirty years.
She now teaches English as an independent part-time teacher to spend more time on her writing career.
As an author of fiction, she has a love of short stories. She first visited Yorkshire as a teenager and fell in
love with the people and landscape. She lives in London.

Publication Date: 28th August 2024 £9.99 ISBN:
9781805144700
Thema subject category: FBA – Modern and contemporary fiction: general and
literary paperback 198 x 129 mm 80 pp Portrait
Author location: London. Setting: Yorkshire

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