Spanning the Devon coast from the Second World War to the present, The Lost and Found Hotel is an emotional, uplifting book club read about the secrets families keep, the lives we settle for, and the courage it takes to start again. On a clifftop above a beach stands The Wavecrest – a rambling, old-fashioned hotel where the tea is strong, the armchairs are deep, and three generations of women have had their lives shaped by the same secret. Rose Brownlow grew up there, and swore she’d never return, having escaped to establish a successful career and her own family life in London. But when her mother summons her back, before setting off on a mysterious trip she refuses to explain, Rose finds herself running The Wavecrest, raising her children among the guests, and bumping into the man she once thought was her future. She only meant to stay a few weeks. But sorting through the hotel’s ancient safe, Rose finds a small, private notebook tucked at the bottom of the paperwork, with a photograph tucked between the pages that hints at a history she was never meant to uncover. The answers, Rose is about to discover, go back almost eighty years – to a hotel full of secrets, and a love story nobody was ever supposed to know about. Back in 1944, as the world tears itself apart, Dorothy Fraser is a shy, bookish girl spending her days alone at the hotel while a group of German POWs work the fields above the cove. And one man among them – watchful, gentle, as trapped by the war as she is – sees her in a way no one ever has. What begins between them is forbidden in every sense, and Hale Cove is not a place built for keeping secrets. What passes between them will reshape a family for fifty years.