Below Stairs by Margaret Powell, 212 pages

This book covers Margaret Powell's entry into domestic service in the early 1920s. As a kitchen maid she inhabited a world of back stairs, early risings and late nights, and servitude. One of the best things about this book was how utterly British it was in it's language. So many books are Americanized, but this one hadn't been. This book supposedly inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey" so fans will want to pick it up.