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.
