The White Octopus Hotel

“The White Octopus Hotel is not like anything you’ve ever read before. It’s a completely fresh, brilliantly imaginative way of welcoming us, with all our fear, grief, and guilt, into a fabulous, unpredictable, enchanting world where love is the magic that transforms us all.”—Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Summer Light on Nantucket

“A furiously compelling literary mystery. I stayed up all night with The White Octopus Hotel; I couldn’t leave Eve’s story even for a minute.”—Locus

“An exquisite, fantastical puzzle box of a novel in which love, art, and magic are inescapably bound up with the trauma of childhood loss and war. The White Octopus Hotel acknowledges that life is hard, and grief is real, but it tells us, too, that life is also sweet and contains great mysteries and the possibility of enchantment.”—Kelly Link, bestselling author of The Book of Love

“In The White Octopus Hotel, Bell effortlessly weaves mystery, romance, and a hint of magic into a captivating tapestry of love, tragedy, and time.”—Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author