Below Stairs: Margaret Powell

These are the REAL below-stairs stories from the time of servants, lords, ladies and the great divide between Upstairs and Downstairs. Margaret Powell - shrewd, unabashed and wickedly funny - was originally interviewed on radio in the late sixties to talk about her life as a servant and the response was so intense that it spawned a series of books of her experiences. Read about the household where she had to iron the bootlaces; the guest who kept hot potatoes in her cleavage...not to mention the gentleman who like to stroke the housemaid's curlers (!). You couldn't invent these stories.