Operatic Divas and Naked Irishmen: An Innkeeper’s Tale - Softcover

Nancy R. Hinchliff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631521942 ISBN 13: 9781631521942

Publisher: She Writes Press, 2017

Synopsis

In 1994, at the age of 64 with no business experience and very little start-up money, Nancy Hinchliff buys a turn-of-the-century mansion in Louisville, Kentucky and turns it into a charming Victorian Inn. Through sheer tenacity, she learns the business while successfully coping with one mishap after another. An admittedly asocial retired school teacher, she reinvents herself as an Inn keeper. The reader is drawn into this humorous and engaging tale as the author wields her way around cantankerous contractors, harrowing housekeepers, and no shortage of strange and interesting guests and events. Through her collected stories, Hinchliff gives readers a personal, in-depth, and honest look at what it’s like to be an inn keeper as she candidly describes her twenty-year journey of self discovery.

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About the Author

Nancy Hinchliff holds undergraduate degrees in music and education and graduate degrees in music, science of education, and special education. She is certified to teach English, music, geography and history. She taught in the Chicago public school system for twenty-five years, and in the school of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She has been writing all of her adult life―mostly journal articles, essays, and creative non-fiction―and has been published in newsletters, local magazines, and as a guest on several blogs. In 2008 she coauthored Room at the Table, a cookbook written for the Bed and Breakfast Association of Kentucky, for which she won their president's award. Hinchliff is now a member of the Burlington, VT Writer’s Workshops and is working on her second memoir.

Edition details

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1631521942
• ISBN 13: 9781631521942
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240