The Servant Girl

She is the downstairs maid; he is the Master''s son... Forced to become a kitchen maid at Fortune Hall, Hetty Pearson strikes up an unlikely friendship with the younger son of the house, Richard. But Hetty is just a poor servant girl: what hope does she have of either winning Richard''s heart or escaping his older brother''s more base attentions? Note: previously published as THE JEWEL STREETS by Una Horne

About the author

Maggie Hope was born in County Durham, during the Depression of the 1930s. She is the daughter of a coal miner and knows first-hand the hardships suffered by miners and their families during that time.

Along with her three sisters, she was raised in a ‘two-up-two-down’ miner’s cottage with no inside toilet. Growing up, Maggie never dreamed she could earn a living from her writing. Instead she left school at sixteen and became a nurse, collecting stories from colleagues who had served during the war.

Maggie gave up nursing when she married her husband and started a family. It wasn’t until she was in her 50s though that she finally began her writing career. She is now the Sunday Times bestselling author of fifteen novels.

Product details

• Authors: Maggie Hope, Hope Maggie
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.08.2024
• EAN: 9781529948622
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-4862-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical romance, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General