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: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the shadows of seventeenth-century England, where a woman's worth is measured by her silence and her place is dictated by the walls around her, The Household presents a gripping tale of power, survival, and the invisible chains that bind domestic life. Stacey Halls chronicles the intertwined fates of women living beneath the same roof, each navigating the treacherous currents of class, servitude, and secret-keeping in a world that affords them precious little agency of their own. Halls, celebrated for her richly atmospheric historical novels such as The Familiars and Mrs England, once again illustrates her masterful command of period detail and psychological tension, constructing a world that feels as claustrophobic as it is vivid. Her prose is precise and evocative, peeling back the respectable surface of domestic life to uncover the raw ambitions, desperate loyalties, and quiet rebellions that simmer beneath — leaving the reader to wonder which of these women will find a way to rewrite her own story.
Author: Stacey Halls
Format: Paperback
Published: 2025, Manilla Press, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the shadows of seventeenth-century England, where a woman's worth is measured by her silence and her place is dictated by the walls around her, The Household presents a gripping tale of power, survival, and the invisible chains that bind domestic life. Stacey Halls chronicles the intertwined fates of women living beneath the same roof, each navigating the treacherous currents of class, servitude, and secret-keeping in a world that affords them precious little agency of their own. Halls, celebrated for her richly atmospheric historical novels such as The Familiars and Mrs England, once again illustrates her masterful command of period detail and psychological tension, constructing a world that feels as claustrophobic as it is vivid. Her prose is precise and evocative, peeling back the respectable surface of domestic life to uncover the raw ambitions, desperate loyalties, and quiet rebellions that simmer beneath — leaving the reader to wonder which of these women will find a way to rewrite her own story.