They Also Serve : The Butler's Tale - the remarkable true story of a butler's life below stairs
by
Tom Quinn
Book Details
Format
Paperback / softback
Book Series
True Stories of Life Below Stairs
ISBN-10
1444735926
ISBN-13
9781444735925
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint
Hodder Paperback
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 30th, 2012
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
212 grams
Dimensions
19.50 x 12.40 x 1.60 cms
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Biography: generalBiography: generalHospitality and service industriesService industries
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A revealing memoir of life below stairs
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 the house, waited on, feared and respected by the other servants.Bob Sharpe knew the real world of upstairs downstairs and the secrets of the landed gentry - even to the point of incest and attempted murder!
They Also Serve shows you life below stairs as it really was and is perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and nostalgia memoirs.
Part of the Lives of Servants series. Other titles in the series are: The Maid''s Tale, The Cook''s Tale and Cocoa at Midnight.
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 the house, waited on, feared and respected by the other servants.Bob Sharpe knew the real world of upstairs downstairs and the secrets of the landed gentry - even to the point of incest and attempted murder!
They Also Serve shows you life below stairs as it really was and is perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and nostalgia memoirs.
Part of the Lives of Servants series. Other titles in the series are: The Maid''s Tale, The Cook''s Tale and Cocoa at Midnight.
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