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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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780755329694
Publisert
2006-06-15
Utgiver
Headline Publishing Group; Headline Review
Vekt
567 gr
Høyde
26 mm
Bredde
161 mm
Dybde
240 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
288

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Om bidragsyterne

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.