345 pages
"ST. Petersburg Russia, 1919. Anna's world is under threat. The eighteen-year-old countess has lived in luxury all her life, but revolution is tearing Russia apart - and her family must escape... London, 1919. Now penniless, Anna is working as a servant for the aristocrat Westerholmes. But as she falls in love with the young earl it becomes harder to keep her true identity secret..."
summary from back of The Secret Countess (Picador, 2007 edition)
The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson was first published as a A Countess Below Stairs in 1981. The reason I read this book was because I have read other books by this author and they were pretty good. In this book Anna and her family have fled from Russia and now are now living in England. They are there with a lot of other royal and high ranking families that have fled as well. Because they no longer have very much money they all have to work hard, but none of them are bitter about it. This is a romance book, the person Anna loves is engaged to a woman who is 'perfect' but turns out to be an awful person. I usually don't like books like this but this one was actually pretty good, and I kept wanting to find out what happened to her. A lot of times when I read books like this, I get bored with them. It has a lot of funny parts, but the ending isn't very unexpected. Altogether it was an interesting book and I would recommend it more to girls 13 and under, although other people might like it also. Rating: 3 stars
-mnm1309
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