Carnegie's Maid
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Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home. If she can keep up the ruse, that is. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie requires skills she doesn't have, answering to an icy mistress who rules her sons and her domain with an iron fist. What Clara does have is a resolve as strong as the steel Pittsburgh is becoming famous for, coupled with an uncanny understanding of business, and Andrew begins to rely on her. But Clara can't let her guard down, not even when Andrew becomes something more than an employer. Revealing her past might ruin her future -- and her family's.--Provided by Publisher.
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Formulaic, unoriginal, and preachy. What could have been an interesting premise falls flat by turning into a self-righteous and cliché love story.
A good read. Not the typical historical fiction I have read in the past. The maid, Clara, is the personal maid to the mother of Andrew Carnegie. She is the fiction. Andrew is the historical part. The book tells of his rise through the eyes of Clara, who falls in love with him. Andrew, likewise, loves her and because of her intelligence and sensibility, he changes from a man determined to reach the highest rungs of society, to a man who realized the importance of raising up those who have less then he attained. Carnegie was born poor and became a self-made man who himself needed a helping hand. Clara didn't let him forget that and it was she who inspired his philanthropy through the years, especially the free libraries that he established all over the world. In the novel, Andrew's mother casts Clara out of her house and warns her to stay away from Andrew so that's where their story ended. Benedict did a lovely job of flushing out the personalities and it made me wish it were a true story.
