Grace is born into the comfortable middle-class life of provincial Edwardian England, but is forced to enter service as a lower housemaid at the home of the ancient Lydiard family, before rising rapidly to the position of nanny.
Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.
Ruth's story is told in three parts, ...