Patience & Esther av SW Searle

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<p><b>"This charmer serves scorching heat in a sugar coating."<i>¿ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY</i></b></p><p><b>"An engrossing and delightful read."<i>¿ NEWSARAMA</i></b></p><p>Patience is a kindhearted country girl, eking out a living in Edwardian England as tremors of social change rock the world around her. When she starts her employment in formal service on the grounds of an opulent country manor, she has no idea that her own personal revolution is about to begin.</p><p>Selfless, dutiful, and just a touch naive, she takes to both her place as a parlor maid <i>and</i> to her new roommate, the bookish and progressive lady¿s maid, Esther. In another time, the two women would have kept one another¿s company forever in their little attic bedroom, living out their days in the employ of a Lord. But it¿s now the dawn of a new age. The expanding empire has brought with it not only plundered wealth, but worldliness and new ideas. Suffragists agitate in the street, idle-rich bohemians challenge sexual