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The Kitchen Maid (Paperback)

by Valerie Wood (Author)
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  • Paperback: 409 pages
  • Publisher: Corgi Books; New edition edition (2 Feb 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 055215217X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552152174
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.6 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 150,819 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Jenny Graham leaves her home in Hull and applies for work as a kitchen maid at the home of the Ingram family in the East Yorkshire town of Beverley. Here, she meets and falls in love with Christy, the only son of the family, whose parents have high hopes of him marrying well in order to save their own impoverished livelihood. Christy wants them to run away together, and hatches a secret, dangerous plan which goes tragically wrong and leaves Jenny on a charge of murder. Many difficulties confront Jenny before she can return to the place where once she was happy and where she can at last make her peace.

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Jenny is determined to make her own way in the world, and she secures a job as the kitchen maid in a grand house in Beverley.She gradually gains the attention of Christy, the young master of the house, and they fall in love.But slowly their hopes and dreams turn to nightmares and culminate in a scandal which will force Jenny to leave Beverley and everything she knows.

Cast aside by her own family, and all alone in the world, Jenny has to rely on her ailing aunt Agnes, who was banished from the family many years before.Living with Agnes and her husband Stephen St John Laslett, she learns that Stephen’s wealthy family have disowned him and they have to eke out a meagre living on their small farm.
Times are hard, and as Agnes grows weaker, she asks Stephen to make her an unusual promise, one that will affect the rest of Jenny’s life.Jenny the kitchen maid becomes the mistress of Laslett Hall, and although she tries to fit in with world that she now inhabits, she never forgets the words that the gypsy told her: that one day she will return to where she was once happy – and there Jenny will find her true love.

By the ever-popular author of the Catherine Cookson Prize for Fiction.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Kitchen Maid, 26 April 2009
By Mrs. Carol Bell (East Yorks, England) - See all my reviews
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After attending some classes on The History of Hull I was told that I would probably find Valerie Wood books interesting. They are certainly that and the ones that I have read so far I have found really good. She seems to be able to put a lot of the old landmarks of Hull and the surrounding areas into her books.
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