What Remained in Milan ebook

Giulia Renzi has been director of the Meridian Milano for three days when the most expensive week of the year begins. A hundred and eighteen keys on the Via Borgonuovo, six nights at full occupancy, and a city in which, during fashion week, ninety-seven of every hundred beds are taken. She writes everything by hand: on the left a time, on the right the name of the person who will make it happen. Matteo Serrano ran this house for six years and left it two years ago without giving a reason. He returns as regional director for the South, which makes him her superior: the man who countersigns her targets and will write her first annual review. He asks for her numbers and nothing else, and for twelve days she reads that as arrogance. Thirty hours before the largest arrival of the year, a young woman in reservations opens a contract file no one had asked her to open. A hundred and forty-nine confirmed rooms against a hundred and eighteen keys. What follows is not rescue but work — laundry cycles, a neighbouring house, two minibuses, a paper log, and the question of who is told what, and how early. Volume eight of the Meridian series, told in the present tense in two voices, and complete in itself.