The Household (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the shadow of Georgian London's grand townhouses, where servants are seen and never heard, The Household uncovers the hidden lives of women bound by duty, loyalty, and the desperate hunger for something more. Stacey Halls chronicles the interlocking fates of a household's mistress and her staff, drawing back the velvet curtain on a world where class and gender dictate every breath — and where the price of freedom is higher than any of them imagined. Halls, the Sunday Times bestselling author celebrated by Kate Moss as a writer of great originality, constructs her narratives with meticulous period detail and a keen psychological insight that transforms domestic spaces into arenas of quiet rebellion. Her prose is both intimate and sweeping, illuminating the invisible labour and suppressed ambitions of women who history chose to forget. A Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted triumph, The Household leaves the reader with a haunting question: when the cage door finally opens, do you have the courage to fly?
Author: Stacey Halls
Format: Paperback
Published: 2025, Bonnier Books
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the shadow of Georgian London's grand townhouses, where servants are seen and never heard, The Household uncovers the hidden lives of women bound by duty, loyalty, and the desperate hunger for something more. Stacey Halls chronicles the interlocking fates of a household's mistress and her staff, drawing back the velvet curtain on a world where class and gender dictate every breath — and where the price of freedom is higher than any of them imagined. Halls, the Sunday Times bestselling author celebrated by Kate Moss as a writer of great originality, constructs her narratives with meticulous period detail and a keen psychological insight that transforms domestic spaces into arenas of quiet rebellion. Her prose is both intimate and sweeping, illuminating the invisible labour and suppressed ambitions of women who history chose to forget. A Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted triumph, The Household leaves the reader with a haunting question: when the cage door finally opens, do you have the courage to fly?