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|title=The Ottoman Motel

|sort=Ottoman Motel, The

|publisher=Sandstone Press Ltd

|date=March 2013

|summary=11 year old Simon Sawyer's parents go missing in the strange town of Reception. Their disappearance is a catalyst for the town's secrets to be revealed.

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Simon Sawyer is 11 years old, forced on a road-trip with his parents to visit his grandmother, Iris. Iris is living in some backwater town hemmed in on three sides by corn fields, and on the fourth by the sea. The town is called Reception in a heavy-handed attempt at irony, as we learn the town actually has no reception for mobile phones and is pretty much isolated from the rest of the world but for a few dirt tracks leading out.