Ali Smith is one of the most wonderful wordsmtihs ever. In this magical and deceptively slight book, she weave together the lives of women who have all been affected by a great tragedy. her focus is on the everyday consequences and results of death and pain and love, which she observes with precision and great empathy. The structure of the book invites you at its end to go back to the start, and indeed I did to close out my experience of this Hotel World where it began. Magnificent.