A Pearl for My Mistress

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Annabel Fielding. A Pearl for My Mistress

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England, 1934. Hester Blake, an ambitious girl from an industrial Northern town, finds a job as a lady’s maid in a small aristocratic household.

Despite their impressive title and glorious past, the Fitzmartins are crumbling under the pressures of the new century. And in the cold isolation of these new surroundings, Hester ends up hopelessly besotted with her young mistress, Lady Lucy.

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Hester didn’t dare to say anything more, but Lucy needed no encouragement.

‘I’ve never told you about my cousin. What should I say? His name was Albert. He was older, than me – two years older, I think. He studied at Harrow back then, and we can safely say he was very unhappy about it. He hated the cold, hated the discipline, hated the sport. He wasn’t any good at it, either. Weak and pale, just like me; a lover of poetry, just like me.

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