Eve Williams is about to discover just how the other half
really live ... Above stairs: Lord Netherwood keeps his
considerable fortune ticking over with the profits from his three
coal mines in the vicinity. It''s just as well the coal is of the
highest quality as the upkeep of Netherwood Hall, his splendid
estate on the outskirts of town, doesn''t come cheap. And that''s not
to mention the cost of keeping his wife and daughters in the latest
fashions-- and keeping the heir, the charming but feckless Tobias,
out of trouble. Below stairs: Eve Williams, is the wife of one of
Lord Netherwood''s most stalwart employees. When her ordered
existence amid the terraced rows of the miners'' houses is brought
crashing down by the twin arrivals of tragedy and charity, Eve must
look to her own self-sufficiency, and talent, to provide for her
three young children. And it''s then that ''upstairs'' and
''downstairs'' collide in truly dramatic fashion...
關於作者:
A former BBC radio producer, married to author and Independent
journalist Brian Viner, Jane Sanderson has used some of her own
family history as background for her first novel.