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Wednesday 27 February 2019

Carnegie's Maid ~ Marie Benedict


Synopsis
Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home.
If she can keep up the ruse, that is. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie requires skills he doesn't have, answering to an icy mistress who rules her sons and her domain with an iron fist. What Clara does have is a resolve as strong as the steel Pittsburgh is becoming famous for, coupled with an uncanny understanding of business, and Andrew begins to rely on her. But Clara can't let her guard down, not even when Andrew becomes something more than an employer. Revealing her past might ruin her future — and her family's.
With captivating insight and heart, Carnegie's Maid tells the story of one brilliant woman who may have spurred Andrew Carnegie's transformation from ruthless industrialist into the world's first true philanthropist.

After starting out with such promise - there was a generous amount of classic books and poet/poetry sharing in this book.  Perfect!  - then the audiobook just seemed to start dragging on in the middle: I ended up skipping past chapters, bar one, the very last chapter.   Listening to this while also going through One Child by Mei Fong was perhaps not the best idea.    I think I might have appreciated the pace and storytelling in Carnegies's Maid more if I’d read the printed book and, perhaps, if I hadn’t been so caught up in that soberly disturbing read by Fong; so, I’m going to take that last factor into account and gift it with 3 stars, instead of 2+.  


The portions of the book I listened to were definitely a clean romance, not sure about the 3 chapters I skipped :D


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