Longlisted for the Orange Fiction Prize 2012. A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily, from whom she was separated in her childhood. After stealing a suitcase of letters, clothes and photographs from her mum’s bedroom at the top of a hotel on Venice Beach, the girl spends her summer travelling around Los Angeles in a bid to track down the men who knew her mother. As she discovers more about Lily’s past and tries to re-enact her life, she comes to question the foundations of her own personality. The Pink Hotel, Anna Stothard’s stunning second novel is a tale about finding love in the most unlikely of places, and how sometimes you can only know who you are by discovering who you are not.