Through Virginia Woolf's, a feminist and a bohemian, extensive diaries and letters and brilliant detective work, this title chronicles the lives of those forgotten women who worked behind the scenes in Bloomsbury, and their fraught relations with one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. It explores the hidden history of service.

Using Virginia Woolf and 4 of her servants as a jumping off point, Alison Light explores the extraordinary world of the domestic servant in the first half of the 20th century and casts new light on one of our most celebrated literary modernists. 'An absorbing investigation, serious, radical and feminist in its politics, entertaining in its delivery' "Independent"