Backstairs Life in a Country House - Complete & Unabridged (Audio cassette, Unabridged)

Eileen Balderson's mother died when she was just thirteen years of age, and she was urged into domestic service by her father so that she would always have a secure home. Her book covers the years from 1931 to the early post-war period, when her time in service was spent in a succession of country houses, first as a between-maid and then as a housemaid. Her straight-forward and detailed account of life backstairs shows the gentry were not the monsters or buffoons portrayed in certain books and television programs.