A house in the country
Adam, Ruth2020
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Six friends have spent the dark, deprived years of World War II fantasising—in air raid shelters and food queues—about an idyllic life in a massive country house. With the coming of peace, they seize on a seductive newspaper ad and take possession of a neglected 33-room manor in Kent, with acres of lavish gardens and an elderly gardener yearning to revive the estate’s glory days. But the realities of managing this behemoth soon dawn, including a knife-wielding maid, unruly pigs, and a paying guest who tells harrowing stories of her time in the French Resistance, not to mention the friends’ conscientious efforts to offer staff a fair 40-hour work week and paid overtime. And then there’s the ghost of an overworked scullery maid . . .
Main title:
A house in the country / Ruth Adam.
Author:
Adam, Ruth, author
Imprint:
S.l. : Dean Street Press, 2020.
Collation:
206 p. ; 19 cm
ISBN:
9781913527235 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
2662035