Synopsis

To the East Sussex coast goes Ruth, tasked with addressing a hotelier who already opposes her proposals, even before they've met. Ruth has traveled to Hastings to visit the Grand Hotel, a seafront property with seventeen rooms that is increasingly struggling against the competition from newer, more affordable establishments in the town. Peter Mann, the hotel's owner of eighteen years, is eager to revive its fortunes, yet he is apprehensive of Ruth’s notoriously direct manner, even before her