Markham Thorpe Author:Giles Waterfield 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: t... more »he charismatic housekeeper, Mrs Rundell, whose agendas are complex and whose enemies are growing...« less
Highly readable book with involving characters and plot line. Fascinating upstairs-downstairs story of domestic politics. I could hardly put this book down and couldn't wait for the ending, yet hated to see this satisfying book end!