It is this pattern of self-inflicted frustration that gives The Little Hotel its coherence

Time magazine reviews The Little Hotel.

The reviewer writes:

It is this pattern of self-inflicted frustration that gives The Little Hotel its coherence and links to earlier Stead novels like The House of All Nations (1938) ... and The Man Who Loved Children (1940), a chronicle of domestic agony that Clifton Fadiman once described as "Little Women rewritten by a demon."