Day 159 - Went on to illustrate the fact that some people never read anything properly, or if they do, they ignore what they see (Pg 85)

I have enjoyed the adventures and musings of Monica Dickens (daughter of Charles), domestic servant / cook-general. Apparently she wrote this book in 3 weeks and I wonder if she kept a journal during her various employment situations or if she just sat down one day and proceeded to write it all out in one go.

One Pair of Hands is quite an amusing account of persons and social classes during the 1930s, and I did not fail to notice similarities with today’s social structures. Monica was not particularly ‘up to’ most of the different tasks she took on, and it is rather astonishing that she fails to improve her skills at all! She is also a most dreadful liar, telling all kinds of stories about widowed mothers and sisters dying of pneumonia.

I am very interested to read the next book in the series, One Pair of Feet, as it is about her time working as a nurse. One can only imagine what the poor patients must have endured under her ‘care’!

Still behind on the pile, doing my best to catch up.

125 days remaining, 20 books to go.