Home was a Grand Hotel is the recently published book by Pamela Sydney Wilson, a Minerva member and old girl of Brighton and Hove High School.

Pamela has the unusual accolade of having been the first baby to be born at Brighton’s prestigious Grand Hotel, and it loomed large in her life, right up until her father retired as the hotel’s general manager after a distinguished 40-year career.

Famous for its wealthy and well-known guests and for the disasters that have befallen it over the years, the Grand Hotel has a fascinating history depicted in Pamela’s writing through humorous and tragic tales of what went on and who ‘Miss Pam’ rubbed shoulders with, both in the Grand and during her five wartime years as WAAF Corporal Sydney Smith.  In the end the Grand Hotel still held Pamela in its thrall, drawing her back there to celebrate her 80th birthday in the place she called home so many years before.

To find out more about the book you can visit the publisher’s website http://www.bookguild.co.uk/home-was-a-grand-hotel-tales-of-a-brighton-belle-pr-828.html