# Event Details - **Event Name**: A Perfect Hand by Ayelet Waldman w/ Rebecca Traister! - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 27 Aug, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 27 Aug, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for an event with Ayelet Waldman, who will be discussing her book A Perfect Hand! She will be in conversation with Rebecca Traister.About this EventA richly drawn, captivating, and endlessly amusing novel of love and subterfuge between a lady’s maid and her clandestine lover, set in the country estates of nineteenth-century England.Miss Alice Lockey, daughter of a tenant farmer, has by dint of hard work, innate intelligence, and a cunning ability to predict the moods of her betters, raised herself to the lofty status of lady’s maid at Alderwick Park. Though her mother has advised Alice to work only until marriage, Alice has thus far resisted the temptations of matrimony among the neighboring widowers and pig farmers, more content to enjoy the fruits of her labor—or at least the portion of it her father will share after it is paid to him. Alice spends her days arranging Lady Jemima Alderwick’s blond hair into the latest French styles, chignons and plaits, laundering her lady’s surprisingly malodorous petticoats and drawers, and carefully sewing all manner of fripperies, ribbons, lace, and silk flowers, to her lady’s bonnets and gowns.But when a visiting servant, a valet named Charlie Wells, catches her eye, Alice begins to understand the constraints of her position. In a ploy to spend time with the object of her affection, Alice attempts to arrange a romance between Lady Jemima Alderwick and Charlie’s employer, one Baronet Sir Nigel Wynstowe. If only they would fall in love—then Alice and Charlie might live together as man and wife! Challenged by Lady Jemima’s love for another and Sir Wynstowe’s eccentric personality, Alice must use all of her cunning to bring about this unlikely romantic union. Will this low-born servant successfully manipulate the hearts of these lords and ladies? Will Charlie and Alice ever improve their stations? Or, as the beginning of women’s suffrage begins to percolate in the drawing rooms and salons of London, will Alice discover a different sort of path for herself?A deliciously funny, gorgeously detailed, utter enthralling novel, A Perfect Hand is a glorious novel of class, gender, and England on the cusp of enormous change.ABOUT THE AUTHORSAYELET WALDMAN is the author of A Really Good Day, Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Daughter's Keeper, Bad Mother and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She co-developed and was an Executive Producer on the Netflix series Unbelievable, which received a Peabody Award and Best Limited Series nominations at the Critics’ Choice Awards, the Golden Globes, and the Primetime Emmys in 2020. Waldman lives in Berkeley, California with her husband Michael Chabon.REBECCA TRAISTER is writer at large for New York Magazine and a contributing editor at Elle. A National Magazine Award finalist, she has written about women in politics, media, and entertainment from a feminist perspective for The New Republic and Salon and has also contributed to The Nation, The New York Observer, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, Glamour, and Marie Claire. She is the author of Good and Mad, All the Single Ladies and the award-winning Big Girls Don’t Cry. She lives in New York with her family. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/portland/a-perfect-hand-by-ayelet-waldman-w-rebecca-traister/100001997771348883 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, literary-art, Workshops, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Longfellow Books - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Portland - **state**: ME - **country**: United States - **location**: Longfellow Books - **lat**: 43.6665821 - **long**: -70.24606539999999 - **full address**: Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: A Perfect Hand by Ayelet Waldman w/ Rebecca Traister! - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/6a384a732aee5b85c4411be62b27fa671c3d932eacc9aa330b0591240c5b24d3-rimg-w1200-h600-dce89888-gmir.jpg?v=1786720126 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is A Perfect Hand by Ayelet Waldman w/ Rebecca Traister! being held? - **A:** A Perfect Hand by Ayelet Waldman w/ Rebecca Traister! takes place on Thu, 27 Aug, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 27 Aug, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing A Perfect Hand by Ayelet Waldman w/ Rebecca Traister!? - **A:** A Perfect Hand by Ayelet Waldman w/ Rebecca Traister! is organized by Longfellow Books. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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