- Countesses, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Women household employees
After the Russian revolution turns her world topsy-turvy, Anna, a young Russian Countess, has no choice but to flee to England. Penniless, Anna hides her aristocratic background and takes a job as servant in the household of the esteemed Westerholme family, armed only with an outdated housekeeping manual and sheer determination.
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Classical in form, resolved, effortless and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Eva Ibbotson
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 286
- Publisher
- Avon Books, Futura, Puffin
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780712636711
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Eva Ibbotson (born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner, 1925, Vienna, Austria) was a British novelist specializing in romance and children's fantasy. Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1925. When Hitler came into power, Ibbotson's family moved to England. She attended Bedford College, graduating in 1945; Cambridge University from 1946-47; and the University of Durham, from which she graduated with a diploma in education in 1965. Ibbotson had intended to be a physiologist, but was put off by the amount of animal testing that she would have to do. Instead, she married and raised a family, returning to school to become a teacher in the 1960's. Ibbotson was widowed with three sons and a d
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