The Upstart

Cookson, Catherine

ISBN 10: 1551665271 / ISBN 13: 9781551665276

Published by Mira, 1996

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No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. spine creasing, edge wear; One of the best-loved authors in North America takes a long-term look at a newly wealthy family in turn-of-the-century England and the clashes of will between the upstart head of the household and the very proper butler, who's secretly in love with the master's daughter.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Upstart
• Publisher: Mira
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551665271
• ISBN 13: 9781551665276
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 10 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Romance

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Synopsis

As a man who has clawed his way to the top in late nineteenth-century England, Samuel Fairbrother sees the purchase of a mansion on the outskirts of Fellburn as a fitting display of wealth, but his clashes with the disdainful butler Maitland almost destroy Samuel's family. Reprint.

From the Inside Flap

Suddenly risen to power and influence, Samuel Fairbrother, manufacturer and retailer of boots, shoes and clogs, decided that his new station in life deserved a more imposing residence. Accordingly he bought himself a thirty-four-roomed mansion situated on the outskirts of Fellburn. With the house came the butler, Maitland, who at once made plain his belief that Samuel, far from the gentleman his predecessor had been, was no more than an upstart.

So began a clash of wills between master and man, at which Samuel Fairbrother discovered he was at a distinct disadvantage, for Maitland was well skilled in the art of maintaining his indispensability. Fairbrother, for his part, was only too aware that he dare not dispence with Maitland's services. And so an uneasy truce was declared between them.

As the years went by and the century turned, Samuel Fairbrother saw his children, one by one, leave the big house to make lives for their own--all except his eldest daughter Janet who, by means of a legacy, was enabled to shape the destiny of her father's scattered family and effect the reconciliation that he thought was impossible.

From the Paperback edition.