When housekeeper Maria arrives at the house of MP Howling and his wife Lydia, she doesn't quite find things the way she expected.
Maria, a Brazilian au pair, arrives in England to work for parliamentary candidate and multinational businessman Maurice Howling and his wife, Lydia, only to find the job is not as she expected. She can put up with the cooking, cleaning and even Maurice's sexual advances, but how much cholera, rain-forest destruction and pollution can a young girl take?—E. M. Murray