Michaela Francis

Sins of the Servants' Wing Michaela Francis

When, in a sequel to the novel "Sins of the First Eleven," Michaela Francis, the author's eponymous heroine of St Margaret Clitheroe's Catholic Girls' Boarding School reports to Castlebridge Hall for a work placement at half term, trouble is almost bound to follow. She has barely set foot in the Hall before she is ordered to the library for a salutary caning over the venerable caning stool. From there, things only get worse. Pressed into service as a maid, Michaela is confined to the Hall and, prescribed a regime of strict discipline under the gimlet eyes of the Hall's butler and Head of Housekeeping. Furthermore she faces another thrashing should the academic work she presents to Lord Castlebridge be less than satisfactory, she comes to the unwanted attention of the lecherous Marquis of Stansbury, falls afoul of the awful Priscilla Armstrong and becomes involved in a complicated amorous affair with one of her fellow maids. Most ominous of all, she attracts the notice of the beautiful and Machiavellian Lady Castlebridge with the prospect of becoming embroiled in her labyrinthine plots. This then is the first part of Michaela's hilarious misadventures at Castlebridge Hall in a fusion of two of the author's loved series. Told in her own inimitable words, our irrepressible heroine leads us into a startling and engaging account of a maid's life at Castlebridge Hall; sexy, intriguing, funny and completely crazy. For all those who have enjoyed the Castlebridge Hall stories and the St Margaret Clitheroe's stories, this new episode is a must.