The Eight-Shilling Girl
Faye Godwin

Life in the Great Hotel is unspeakable. For years, Flora works constantly, half-starved and constantly driven by the cruel cook and malicious hotel owner. When some of the older girls find another way to make extra money, Flora is having none of it – yet somehow she always bears the brunt of the other girls’ bad decisions.
Things go from bad to worse. Poverty threatens to swallow Flora whole. She would lose hope entirely, were it not for the sweet, gentle boy who visits the Great Hotel from time to time. Ethan Goddard is the only person in the entire world who has ever been kind to Flora, and as she grows older, Flora grows to realise she loves him. But when circumstances rip him from her life and plunge Flora into chaos and loneliness, she is going to have to decide what she will do for that love. And if she will allow it to take her on a journey like no other…