Whose Turn For The Stairs

Author : Robert Douglas
Publisher : Hachette Scotland
ISBN 13 : 0755388518
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whose Turn for the Stairs? written by Robert Douglas and published by Hachette Scotland. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an utterly charming story about twelve families and their tightly knit street in 1950s Maryhill. Following the end of the war, the close rebuilds its ties and the strong sense of community and friendly neighbourhood bonds are soon back in place. There is young love for Rhea and Robert; a surprising new start for James; a change of direction for George; and all overseen by the matriarch of the street - Granny Thomson. And of course, all buoyed up by a big helping of Scottish humour and strength of spirit. Yet it is all not perfect in their world: the families have to deal with poverty, religious bigotry, racism, heartbreak, lies, violence and death. But the powerful friendships cannot ultimately be broken. In Robert Douglas's first novel, he recreates a time and place particular to Glasgow but to which everyone will relate.

Author : Robert Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857575784
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whose Turn for the Stairs? written by Robert Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Powell
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 142995244X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Below Stairs written by Margaret Powell and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants portrayed in Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, Margaret Powell's classic memoir of her time in service, Below Stairs, is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman who, though she served in the great houses of England, never stopped aiming high. Powell first arrived at the servants' entrance of one of those great houses in the 1920s. As a kitchen maid – the lowest of the low – she entered an entirely new world; one of stoves to be blacked, vegetables to be scrubbed, mistresses to be appeased, and bootlaces to be ironed. Work started at 5.30am and went on until after dark. It was a far cry from her childhood on the beaches of Hove, where money and food were scarce, but warmth and laughter never were. Yet from the gentleman with a penchant for stroking the housemaids' curlers, to raucous tea-dances with errand boys, to the heartbreaking story of Agnes the pregnant under-parlormaid, fired for being seduced by her mistress's nephew, Margaret's tales of her time in service are told with wit, warmth, and a sharp eye for the prejudices of her situation. Margaret Powell's true story of a life spent in service is a fascinating "downstairs" portrait of the glittering, long-gone worlds behind the closed doors of Downton Abbey and 165 Eaton Place.

Author : Lorrie Moore
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307273210
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gate at the Stairs written by Lorrie Moore and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times) comes a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America. Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, has come to a university town as a student. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny for a mysterious and glamorous family, she finds herself drawn deeper into their world and forever changed. “An indelible portrait of a young woman coming of age in the Midwest in the year after 9/11…. Moore has written her most powerful book yet.” —The New York Times

Author : Sanitary Institute (Great Britain).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the Sanitary Institute written by Sanitary Institute (Great Britain). and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Celine Loup
Publisher : Boom! Studios
ISBN 13 : 1641443359
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs written by Celine Loup and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma is excited to start a family in her new home, but after her child’s birth she finds her world turning upside-down. The infant cries like it’s scared of something, or someone, and Emma’s sleepless nights quickly drive a wedge between her and her husband, who seems uncharacteristically detached. When Emma begins to see strange things in the house, the line between reality and fantasy blurs and her grasp of what’s real and what’s not becomes even more clouded. Is something unnatural haunting the nursery? And what if it also affected her husband, who ventured up into the attic when they first arrived... Inspired by the works of Shirley Jackson and Ira Levin, Celine Loup’s The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs weaves a tale of horror and suspense that captures the isolation of postpartum depression, while exploring the very real fears associated with new motherhood.

Author : Leeds (England). Unhealthy Areas Sub-Sanitary Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Housing of the Working Classes, Act, 1890 written by Leeds (England). Unhealthy Areas Sub-Sanitary Committee and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alice Feeney
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250144833
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sometimes I Lie written by Alice Feeney and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Western Christian Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
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Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112107848993 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: