A novel by Floortje Sanders
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Step into Amsterdam Hotel Happiness—a heartfelt story of love, friendship, and finding your way forward.
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Welcome to Hotel Happiness
When Lana discovers Julien has been unfaithful, she leaves their farmhouse near Annecy for Amsterdam.
A job at Hotel Happiness brings an eccentric new circle into her life: warmhearted coworkers, Lenie from the Jordaan, and the irresistible Omar. For the first time in a while, a fresh start feels possible.
But distance can’t settle everything Lana left behind.
Step into the story
Floortje SandersBehind the story
Floortje Sanders grew up in Amsterdam and knows the city beyond its postcard views. A former actress and theater director, she brings warmth, humor, and the complications of starting over to her fiction.
Meet FloortjeFrom the Journal
Reading notes, a sense of place, and a closer look at the story.
Canals, close-knit neighborhoods and a change of pace: why Amsterdam makes such an inviting setting for a novel about starting over.
The reading lifeA reading note on new beginnings, friendship and the emotional appeal of feel-good fiction, with Hotel Happiness as a place to begin.
Inside the bookMeet Lana, Julien, Lenie and Omar, and discover the premise of Floortje Sanders’s Hotel Happiness without giving away the ending.
Amsterdam Hotel Happiness
Meet Lana and the people who make a new city feel like possibility.
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