The Cook's Tale
The remarkable true story of life below stairs
$57.59
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
8 May 2012
Summary
Nancy Jackman was born in 1907 in a remote Norfolk village. Her father was a ploughman, her mother a former servant who struggled to make ends meet in a cottage so small that access to the single upstairs room was via a ladder.
The pace of life in that long-vanished world was dictated by the slow, heavy tread of the farm horse and though Nancy’s earliest memories were of a green, sunny countryside still unspoiled by the motorcar, she also knew at first hand the harshness of a wo…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444735895 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444735896 |
| Author: | Tom Quinn, Nancy Jackman |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 8 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | True Stories of Life Below Stairs |
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Critics Review
“The bosses upstairs from Nancy Jackman’s kitchen may have had the money and power, but The Cook’s Tale shows that each person in the big houses lived very interesting lives.” Anglotopia.net
”[An] at times heartbreaking, at times hilarious tell-all.” Anglotopia.net”
“The bosses upstairs from Nancy Jackman’s kitchen may have had the money and power, but The Cook’s Tale shows that each person in the big houses lived very interesting lives.”” “Anglotopia.net”
Tom Quinn
Tom Quinn is the editor of the Country Landowner’s Magazine. He has written several small books for small independent publishers. He has spent the last twenty years interviewing people who worked in domestic service, getting them to tell him their life stories.
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