Geoffrey Paris has spent four decades working in the hotel and catering business, looking after everything from washing dishes in a back-street pub to supervising five-star banquets at luxury West Country hotels.
He has seen it all, from drunken porters, fraudulent proprietors and incompetent waiters to con artist customers, prima-donna pop stars and millionaires – and he wouldn’t have missed a minute of it.A frank, colourful and highly entertaining account of what really goes on behind the scenes in hotels.
Trevor Millum’s grandfather, George Millum, was gardener to Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of the children’s classic The Secret Garden (1911); the garden he tended at Maytham Hall, her home, was the inspiration for the book, and George himself was the model for the gardener.
His son, the author’s father, also born at Maytham Hall, was himself a gardener. He kept diaries of his day-to-day work, now published for the first time in this unusual and absorbing book.
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