sentences:  This novel and four others ("A Countess Below Stairs", "A Company of Swans", "The Reluctant Heiress", and "The Morning Gift") were reissued between 2007 and 2009 for the young adult market.Set in early 1940s Austria, the novel centers around a young English woman named Ellen Carr.Raised in a family of prominent suffragettes, Ellen, to the surprise of all friends and family, grows up with a great love of all things domestic.