Patricia Ainger

Rachel, self-styled failure of the family, is the divorced mother of a teenage girl living in relative penury in Bridgwater, Somerset. When her aunt - the black sheep of her own generation – dies, her Will comes as a shock to the whole family. She has left her hotel in Minehead – a successful business known as The Red House – to Rachel. In the teeth of opposition from her siblings and knowing nothing whatsoever about how to run a hotel, Rachel and her teenage daughter take over the business, with unexpected results.