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Markham Thorpe
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Markham Thorpe
Contributors:
By (Author) Giles Waterfield
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Imprint:
Headline Review
Publication Date:
15th June 2006
Country:
United Kingdom
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
823.914
Physical Properties
Number of Pages:
288
Dimensions:
Width 161mm, Height 26mm, Spine 240mm
Weight:
567g
Description
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: the charismatic housekeeper, Mrs Rundell, whose agendas are complex and whose enemies are growing...Author Bio
Giles Waterfield was brought up in Paris and Geneva. Having worked at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton and for sixteen years as Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, in 1996 he abandoned arts administration in order to write, teach and curate exhibitions. His first novel, THE LONG AFTERNOON, won the McKitterick Prize in 2001.
