for my Secret Santa partner who has it on her wishlist. I'll fill in the details when I hear it has arrived.

I had a review on hold:
The young girl Tilly grows into the woman Tilda. She has the gift, inherited from her Irish father, of being able to see dead people – others call them ghosts but really, they are just pottering around doing the same things they were doing when they were alive, but watching over their loved ones. It’s a comforting view of death. One of the “ghosts” is Tilly’s dog Eli, always keeping her company.
The themes are (apart from life and death): mother and daughter relationships, broken marriages, depression, obsession, Irish families in England and the Catholic church, and there is something of the atmosphere of Maupin’s Tales of the City. The Paradise Hotel of the title is in Brighton, which Hogan says is a character in the book, but we don’t get there till about halfway through.
I liked Tilly’s misunderstanding of words when she was small – reminded me of some of my own.
I didn’t understand why Tilly was packed off to boarding school when she was so happy at the hotel.
And I was annoyed with her for missing something someone said: if she had latched on it would have sent the story in another, I think more satisfying, direction.

Sent in the mail today.

It has arrived.
I'll wait till it gets journalled then fill in the details.

Thanks so much Secret Santa, look forward to read this book :)