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Beth O’Leary | Two Hotel Receptionists – and Arch-rivals – Are Forced to Work Together
Author Guest / September 26, 2023

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE WAKE-UP CALL 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Two hotel receptionists – and arch-rivals – are forced to work together to return a collection of wedding and engagement rings discovered in the hotel’s lost and found. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The setting is so key to this book! It takes place in the New Forest, which is a beautiful area of the UK not far from where I live. The name is kind of misleading: the New Forest is very old, and it’s basically a huge swathe of woodland and heathland in the south of England, filled with wild ponies and deer and mossy riverbanks. I knew I wanted THE WAKE-UP CALL to be set in winter – I’d never written a wintery book before – and there is just something magical about forests in wintertime, so it seemed like the perfect moment to write about the New Forest. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Oh, absolutely. I think Izzy would be a pretty amazing friend, actually. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Sparkly, optimistic,…