THE GOOD LIARS
Anita Frank, HQ , $32.99
It must have been thrilling and disturbing to live in England in the 1920s. Change, both frivolous and profoundly serious, was every where. Jazz and the sudden sight of exposed knees on perfectly respectable women blew away the cobwebs of the Edwardian era. And the Great War had skewed the male/female balance in the population, forcing surplus women to be self-sufficient.
The Stilwell household in Frank’s novel consists of Victor, a predatory and callous friend; Ida, fretting because servants are hard to come by; Maurice, her jittery husband; and his brother Leonard, wounded and in a wheelchair. Enter Sarah who will nurse Leonard and thus make Ida’s life a whole lot easier. Is Sarah to eat in the kitchen or with the family? She’s very professional yet
