But Norwegians like to give their wares room to breathe. I’m used to stores cramming things onto rods or stacking them up to the ceiling. “What’s the main difference between this store and most of the ones we know back home?” “Here’s a quiz for you,” I say as we enter the first shop. Rather than waste a minute, we leave our dirty dishes in the sink and head out. Liz is delighted to learn that Frogner, the area right behind the Royal Palace, is one of the best shopping districts in the city. A reminder of a life she wanted to forget.Īs we eat, Dr. I’ve never seen her cook Norwegian food before in my life. While I was still asleep, she even began preparing tomorrow’s breakfast: øllebrød, a porridge made with pieces of dry rye bread soaked in beer for twenty-four hours, then served with milk, raisins, and orange zest. By the time I roll out of bed, she has set the table with breakfast from a local Dagligvarebutikk (grocery store), which we picked up on the way back to the apartment last night: berries, bread, boysenberry jam, smoked salmon, yogurt, pickled herring, and brunost, a crumbly brown cheese she hopes I will like. The next morning, I am up bright and early. “A day without shopping is like a day without sunshine.” “En dag uten shopping er som en dag uten solskinn.” With Grace gleefully haunting the halls, a staff harboring all kinds of secrets, and Lizbet's own romantic uncertainty, is the Hotel Nantucket destined for success or doom?'- Provided by publisher.IF I EVER MADE a needlepoint pillow for my mother, I know what it would say: The staff (and guests) have complicated pasts, and the hotel can't seem to overcome the bad reputation it earned in 1922 when a tragic fire killed nineteen-year-old chambermaid Grace Hadley. And while the Hotel Nantucket appears to be a blissful paradise, complete with a celebrity chef-run restaurant and an idyllic wellness center, there's a lot of drama behind closed doors. When she's named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can help put them back on the map. 'Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is.

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