Product Description

This is the UK version of the US title "A Countess Below
Stairs"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4915 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Synopsis
Anna, a young countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice-blue palace overlooking the River Neva. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now-penniless family is forced to flee to England. Armed with an out-of-date book on housekeeping, Anna determines to become a housemaid and she finds work at the Earl of Westerholme's crumbling but magnificent mansion. The staff and the family are sure there is something not quite right about their new maid - but she soon wins them over with her warmth and dedication. Then the young Earl returns home from the war - and Anna falls hopelessly in love. But they can never be together: Rupert is engaged to the snobbish and awful Muriel - and anyway, Anna is only a servant. Or so everybody thinks...

Customer Reviews

Loved it!
This book grabbed me right away because of how different the settings and people were. I sometimes got a bit confused with the Russian words but the book is amazing because you just cannot help liking Anna and Rupert and absolutley hating Muriel. Excellent!
By Nicole, aged 15.

A COUNTESS BELOW STAIRS /THE SECRET COUNTESS
Recently re-issued as 'The Secret Countess', 'A Countess Below Stairs' is a delightful book that is a heart-warming and satisfying read. If your taste is for love stories and wonderful characters that have become your friends by the end of the book, buy this one now.

the best book ever entitled 'the secret countess'
The secret countess is book so brilliant, so capturing that it's hard to describe.
You read and feel breath-taking moments, you feel the adrenalin running through Anna's veins. You read of the hardship of being a maid, of those who think they are above you, of those who are not your friends.
But The Secret Countess is not about sadness, it is about happiness and you feel, as Anna did the kindness of those who care for you, the happiness of seeing someone you haven't seen because he was fighting in the War.
And all this, you feel, right where you are reading whether its in your room or your house or a friends house, a bus stop, in a ship, a plane, a train, a car, no matter what, you still read the same words that so many others enjoyed. So read this romantic, humerous book.
Cry and then laugh barely one minute after. I would and did pay much more than this price to get my copy of the secret countess, but I don't regret because if you payed ten million pounds to just read this book it would be worth it because I can assure you The Secret Countess is the most amazing book you will ever read in your whole life and that is 100% true!