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Anthony Gowers assists guests at a high-end London hotel with the kind of requests that can't be filled from a room-service menu. His reward: lavish tips and a closet full of cashmere. Then a client's after-hours entertainment ends in a tabloid scandal, and Anthony quickly becomes the city's best-dressed unemployed person. . .
In desperation, Anthony takes a position in the countryside as personal butler to Lord Shanderson. As a former Royal footman, Anthony is well versed in the peerage's peculiar ways. But Castle Beadale conceals an abundance of intrigue behind its stately doors. On the surface, Lord Shanderson is a model English gentleman—with a few personal interests that Anthony is sure the absent Lady Shanderson knows nothing about. But when the horrendously high-maintenance Lady Shanderson returns, tempers will flare, secrets will be exposed, and Anthony must decide whether the perks of privilege he's enjoyed are worth the price he's compelled to pay. . .
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781617733123
- File size: 730 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781617733123
- File size: 730 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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March 1, 2015
What does the Savile Row firm of Gieves & Hawkes purvey? Who supplies Her Majesty the Queen with knickers? (Hint it's not Marks & Spencer.) If you're manservant to a masochistic noble, when exactly is it your turn to wear the French maid's outfit? Answers to these and other questions you may never have asked yourself are provided in this absolutely fabulous gay romance by an author who is described as "one of the UK's most sought after private chefs" and so presumably has insider dope on Britain's plummiest elites. At the start of the novel, our hero, Anthony Gowers, is dismissed for good and scandalous reason from the employ of a London hotel. Incredibly handsome, and with no gag reflex to speak of, he lands securely on his knees as Lord Shanderson's manservant at Castle Beadle, where he's showered with Mini Coopers and loads of long-stemmed white roses. What seems like a dream job, however, quickly and predictably turns horribly wrong before Tony learns that knights don't always arrive on white chargers but sometimes in black taxis. VERDICT This breezy debut confection is Downton Abbey as seen through the gimlet eyes of Thomas Barrow and will help while away that next afternoon you're awaiting your fitting at Gieves & Hawkes.--Bob Lunn, Kansas City, MO
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April 1, 2015
Harwood--a chef who has cooked for Queen Elizabeth, the Prince of Wales, and Prince William--pens a debut novel about a man who serves the modern aristocracy, from a high-end London hotel to a countryside estate. (LJ 3/1/15)
Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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