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The House at Tyneford
Paperback, 359 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $15 | purchase
Book Summary
To escape 1938 Vienna, Elise Landau, a Jew, accepts employment as a domestic servant at Tyneford, a family estate in England, where her involvement with the son of the master of the house changes her life in unexpected ways.
Awards and Recognition
20 weeks on NPR Paperback Fiction Bestseller List
Genres:
This book is about:
- Household employees,
- George VI, 1936-1952,
- Aristocracy (Social class),
- FICTION / Literary,
- Immigrants,
- Great Britain,
- Social life and customs,
- England,
- History,
- Domestic fiction,
- Jews,
- Fiction
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