Hotels Like Houses

Hannah Sophie

Sophie Hannah's first book "The Hero and the Girl Next Door" (Carcanet, 1995), earned her a remarkably big audience: her broadcasts and public readings throughout the country have proved extremely popular. Her poems entertain with a cunning use of traditional form, moving beyond satire to the heart of the modern matter: loves, lusts, losses, worldly foibles, how people see themselves and how others see them, the problems of learning to drive and learning to live with a car.

"The Poetry Review" declared, "Shall I put it in capitals? SOPHIE HANNAH IS A GENIUS". Be that as it may, "Hotels like Houses" provides a new range of romantic ironies, light and dark laughter, for her readership.

About the Author

Sophie Hannah was born in Manchester in 1971. In 2004 she was selected as one of the twenty Next Generation poets, and has now published five collections of poetry. Her crime novels have been published in more than 35 countries, and have been adapted for television in the UK. Her Hercule Poirot novel "The Monogram Murders" was published worldwide in September 2014. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and children,

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