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The Butler's Tale - the remarkable true story of a butler's life below stairs
$37.53
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2012
Summary
During more than thirty years in a variety of houses, Bob Sharpe managed to rise from garden boy to valet and butler.
As a boy he had to kill pheasant chicks, boil rabbits for the estate dogs, carry the wood up and down stairs every day for thirty fires and sleep on the floor outside his master’s room. He cleaned shoes, ironed underwear and socks and once had to stand all night in the hall waiting for a late visitor to arrive.
But as a butler he was the best paid servant in th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444735925 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444735926 |
| Author: | Tom Quinn |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 211g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 17mm |
| Series: | True Stories of Life Below Stairs |
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“Well worth the read!” -Anglotopia.net
Reading this fascinating book is likely to unleash almost anyone’s Inner Bolshevik… - Daily Mail
About The Author
Tom Quinn
Bob Sharpe was born in 1902 and died in 1985. He worked both in London and in several country houses. 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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