THE GLASS OF TIME BY MICHAEL COX IN SOUTH AFRICA

1876.  19-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives as a lady's maid at the great country house of Evenwood.  But Esperanza is no ordinary servant.  Her task it to uncover the dark and dangerous secrets that her new mistress has sought to conceal, and set right a past injustice in which Espearanza's own interests are bound up.  Gradually those secrets are revealed and Esperanza becomes enmeshed in a complicated web of intrigue, deceit, murder and betrayal.  Soft cover, fairly good condition.  The cover has minor scuffing and creasing.  534 pages.