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The Poisoned House - Ford, Michael
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Abigail is a maidservant in Greave Hall, an elegant London household governed by the tyrannical housekeeper, Mrs Cotton. Whilst the widowed master slips slowly into madness, Mrs Cotton gradually usurps the position of gentlewoman of the house. She wears his dead wife's jewellery and clothes, entertains guests as though the house is her own and reserves her most despotic treatment for Abi. In the dead of night, Abi makes a desperate bid for freedom, but is soon captured and returned to Greave Hall. As Mrs Cotton's malice ...

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The Poisoned House 2011, Albert Whitman & Company, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780807565896

Hardcover

The Poisoned House 2010, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London

ISBN-13: 9781408804506

Paperback