Product Description

Pat Mancini is the uncrowned Queen of Blackpool, running her enormous seafront hotel with such loving care and attention to detail that she is the talk of the town. Today the Queens Hotel is worth millions and Pat owns every bit of it, down to the last gleaming teaspoon. Yet she first arrived in Blackpool, frightened and penniless, over 40 years ago having fallen head over heel in love with a married man almost twice her age. Pat had left her heavy drinking husband and their two children for musician and pub owner Rudi Mancini.Their first home together was a damp, snail-infested basement flat. Pat went around begging for work as a barmaid and was taken on for just GBP8.50 a week at the Queens Hotel which she now owns. The story of her rise from rags to riches is packed with extraordinary emotion, delicious detail and marvelous memories. From the death of her son, her ensuing breakdown through the early struggle to run a boarding house and hilarious experiences with hotel guests to her eventual ownership of the Queens Hotel and tireless work for charity.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #427016 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

From Bradford Manchester to the Ritz Paris, via Blackpool & Buckingham Palace
A riveting read, once started, I could not put the book down & did not want it to end. It's got everything, love & passion, comedy & tragedy, rags & riches. Pat Mancini is a one off, who allows her brave, candid, humorous, distinctive voice to be heard. Bravo!

Kathryn & Trevor - Manchester

QUEEN OF BLACKPOOL
I have just read this book I laughed cried and laughed it is a really good book. I have worked for Mrs M for 23 years and knew most of the stories and I still enjoyed the book . It is an easy read a good read and shows just how hard Mrs M Queen of Blackpool MBE has had to work and she has never forgotten her roots she really is down to earth. Read the book you will love it especially if you know Mrs M or have stayed at the hotel

brilliant read
i had this book delivered this morning sadly from another site as it was a gift i could not put it down fantastic read. The lady in question has come up the hard way from truly rags to riches and the people she has met along the way make fantastic reading .
I finished the book this afternoon and was so sad when it came to an end i rate this book as the best i have read in a long while well done to the queen of blackpool and if you think that is a little over the top just read the book and realise how true it is 11 out of 10 for a cracking read Queen of Blackpool