Mothering Sunday : A Romance (Hardcover)

from Ameise1

I was captivated by this story from the start. I immediately felt involved and had the feeling that I was standing in the middle of the audience, listening and living with it. Jane, a maid, had an affair with a young man from a good family who was about to get married. This affair had previously ...

from Eyejaybee

In the 1920s, Mothering Sunday had not degenerated into the commercialised 'Mother's Day' of today. It was, instead, a special occasion, particularly for the maids and other domestic servants around the country who would normally be excused work and allowed to return home for the day. In Graham S...

from EBT1002

Surprisingly nuanced, this is the story of Jane Fairchild, an orphan-turned-maid servant who is having an affair with the handsome heir in a neighboring English country house. The year is 1924; the First War has ravaged the country and everything is changing fast. But Jane is just a young woman i...

from Cariola

It's Mothering Sunday, 1924, and Jane Fairchild, orphaned housemaid, is given the day off. Conveniently having no mother to visit, Jane is free to rendezvous with her lover, rich young heir Paul Shefington. Paul's parents have scheduled a lunch date to meet his fiancée's parents, so the house is ...

from quondame

A young man, the sole surviving child of an upper class family post WWI, and a young woman, a foundling, maid at a neighboring family meet on Mothering Sunday. She has nothing but herself and he has everything but himself, but this is really about how life is turned into art and how language both...