Quotes by Martine Bailey, An Appetite for Violets

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That's how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you're invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a co — Martine Bailey, An Appetite for Violets
Around me shone the kitchen I'd worked in each day: the copper pans hung neatly, the scratched wooden table and neat blu — Martine Bailey, An Appetite for Violets
So on Christmas morning I was up at five o'clock, making the fire as bright as a furnace, baking minc'd pies and boiling — Martine Bailey, An Appetite for Violets
Just outside Dover we stopped at an inn and I snatched a taste of dainty fried fish named smelts, and some herrings serv — Martine Bailey, An Appetite for Violets
I was thrown together with Florence, or 'Florawns' as she was called, a pert girl of nineteen who worked in our kitchen — Martine Bailey, An Appetite for Violets