AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK. Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's
memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in the western
world. Includes a foreword by international bestelling author Barbara Ehrenreich. 'My daughter
learned to walk in a homeless shelter.' As a struggling single mum determined to keep a roof
over her daughter's head Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid working long hours in
order to provide for her small family. In Maid she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to
survive and thrive in today's inequitable society. As she worked hard to climb her way out of
poverty as a single parent scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy navigating domestic labour
jobs as a cleaner whilst also juggling higher education assisted housing and a tangled web of
government assistance Stephanie wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told. The
stories of the overworked and underpaid. Written in honest heart-rending prose and with great
insight Maid explores the underbelly of the upper-middle classes and the reality of what it's
like to be in service to them. 'I'd become a nameless ghost ' Stephanie writes. With this book
she gives voice to the 'servant' worker those who fight daily to scramble and scrape by for
their own lives and the lives of their children.
