Emerence is a domestic servant ¿ strong fierce eccentric and with a reputation for being a
first-rate housekeeper. When Magda a young Hungarian writer takes her on she never imagines
how important this woman will become to her. It takes twenty years for a complex trust between
them to be slowly carefully built. But Emerence has secrets and vulnerabilities beneath her
indomitable exterior which will test Magdäs friendship and change the complexion of both their
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