With her incisive wit and "the most beautiful prose" Fay Weldon offers an amusing send-up of modern relationships and child-rearing practices in this caustic novel about a middle-class London couple.
"A smart, liberal, and unmarried couple in their thirties, Hattie and Martyn are delighted by their newborn daughter, Kitty, but trouble arrives when they hire a nanny, Agnieska, a Polish domestic goddess with immigration problems."
"With her incisive wit and "the most beautiful prose" Fay Weldon offers an amusing send-up of modern relationships and child-rearing practices in this caustic novel about a middle-class London couple."@en
"The author offers an amusing send-up of modern relationships and child-rearing practices in this caustic novel about a middle-class London couple."
"Heather and Martyn are a decent, hard-working, ecological-minded young couple, partners with a new baby. Then Agnieszka becomes their babysitter, then the housekeeper working for a pittance when Heather returns to work. Ignoring warnings that Martyn and Agnieszka have become close will she be forced out of her home and partner's bed?"
"Hattie and her partner Martyn hire an au pair named Agnieszka who creates trouble in Hattie's life."
"Hattie and her partner Martyn hire an au pair named Agnieszka who creates trouble in Hattie's life."@en
"Hattie and Martyn are a decent, hard-working, ecologically-minded young couple. So when they meet Agnieszka, a domestic Polish paragon who's married to a bus driver back homne, they take pity on her and invite her to live with them."
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