Servants’ Quarters（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　Haunted by phantoms of World War II and the Holocaust, young
Cressida lives in terror of George Harding, who, severely
disfigured, has returned from the front to recover on his family’s
African estate. When Harding plucks young Cressida’s beautiful
mother and family from financial ruin, establishing them in the old
servants’ quarters, Cressida is swept into a life inexorably bound
to his.In her new setting, she is con*ed to enliven Harding’s
nephew, the hopelessly timid Edgar, to make him “wild and daring.”
She takes on this task with resentful fury, leading the boy astray
and, in the process, learning to manipulate the disparities of
power, class, and ambition. All the while, Harding himself is
watching her. And waiting.”The Servants’ Quarters,” a complex and
sophisticated love story, evokes a vanishing world of privilege
with a Pygmalion twist. It is, as Amy Tan said, “Freed’s best novel
yet.”