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The Best Boomerville Hotel, Cumbria’s answer to the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is open for business. – in a literary sense.

Officially ‘opening its doors’ on 13 March – publication day, the fictional lake district hotel is being overwhelmed by the publishing world’s version of advance bookings as fans of what is now being called ‘Boomer lit’ pre order The Best Boomerville Hotel novel.

Boomer lit is fiction written, and marketed with the baby boomer audience specifically in mind. It features characters and topics the boomer generation – those born between 1946 and 1964 – can identify with and embrace. Not to say that Boomer lit’s appeal isn’t wider – as can be seen with the hugely popular Best Exotic Marigold Hotel film and BBC series that stemmed from the Deborah Moggach book, ‘These Foolish Things’.

The Best Boomerville Hotel is all about its namesake, a fictional hotel that plays host to a holiday retreat exclusively for guests of ‘a certain age’ wishing to stimulate both mind and body with new creative experiences. The wonderful selection of colourful individuals it inevitably attracts ensures laughs aplenty for the reader but, as with the very best of books, there can be tears too.

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