A Perfect Hand : A Novel.

A richly drawn, captivating, and endlessly amusing novel of love and subterfuge between a ladys maid and her clandestine lover, set in the country estates of nineteenth-century England.Miss Alice Lockey, daughter of a tenant farmer, has by dint of hard work, innate intelligence, and a cunning ability to predict the moods of her betters, raised herself to the lofty status of ladys maid at Alderwick Park. Though her mother has advised Alice to work...