- Published: 2 February 2012
- ISBN: 9781446489277
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
The Lady's Maid
My Life in Service
- Published: 2 February 2012
- ISBN: 9781446489277
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
Unique insight into the splendours and miseries of Clivedon ... stuffed with interesting and amusing anecdotes
Times Literary Supplement
Emminently readable
Financial Times
Fascinating and deliciously readable
New York Times Book Review
A crackling comedy of manners ... this combative but oddly affectionate relationships is the book's centre. Surround it is a and a delectable assortment of tales about the habits of over-priviledged Britishers and the people who served them
Newsweek
No fictional series would have dared present a story half so full of strife - and hate as well as love - as that of Rose and her mistress ... The book is full of wry humour as well as splendid anecdotes which make it extremely jolly reading for those who don't have to live through the experiences. The period touches are fascinating, ranging from the grim to the purely enjoyable
Antonia Fraser, Evening Standard
Fascinating, outspoken, yet respectful, loving, yet indignant: a social document of mistress and maid, in station opposite, but in temperament equal ...
Sunday Telegraph