Product details
ISBN
9780755329694
Published
2006-06-15
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group; Headline Review
Weight
567 gr
Height
26 mm
Width
161 mm
Thickness
240 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
288
Author
Biographical note
Giles Waterfield was brought up in Paris and Geneva. Having worked at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton and for sixteen years as Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, in 1996 he abandoned arts administration in order to write, teach and curate exhibitions. His first novel, THE LONG AFTERNOON, won the McKitterick Prize in 2001.
Servants know everything. Never trust them. Never fall in love. Ellen, a young maid in the 1840s, enters service at the declining Markham Thorpe: a house where the relationship between masters and servants is not quite it should be. There's one main reason for this, sitting bang in the middle of this mess of sex, power, money and intrigue: the charismatic housekeeper, Mrs Rundell, whose agendas are complex and whose enemies are growing...
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Ellen, a maid in the 1840s, enters service at the Markham Thorpe: a house where the relationship between masters and servants is not quite it should be. There's one reason for this, sitting bang in the middle of this mess of sex, power, money and intrigue: the housekeeper, Mrs Rundell, whose agendas are complex and whose enemies are growing.
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Product details
ISBN
9780755329694
Published
2006-06-15
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group; Headline Review
Weight
567 gr
Height
26 mm
Width
161 mm
Thickness
240 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
288
Author