A Countess Below Stairs

So, hopefully this post will bring me on the field trip. Anyway, as you can see, I am writing about a very good book by Eva Ibbotson called A Countess Below Stairs. It is about a young Russian countess (der) named Anna who finds herself penniless after the Russian Rebellion. In an attemtpt to get more money to support her unwell mother, she takes on a job as a servant in the house of the earl of Westerholme, hiding her true identitiy as an aristocrat. She begins to fall for Rupert, the young earl, and he seems to return her feelings. But he is very poor and must have a source of money. A source which comes in the form of a fiance named Muriel, beautiful and gentle when she knows there are others looking on, but in truth a nasty and malicious... evil person. I highly recommend it, it was very, very good.

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