Maybe We Were Born Better

Blurb

Part memoir, part social exposé, this is the story of the people who raise the children of the ultra-rich – and what they witness behind closed doors. It asks: what happens when people grow up believing that privilege is natural, wealth is virtue, and the rules are for everyone else?

The perfect nanny is invisible. She is trusted with everything: the children, their routines, the family secrets. She is expected to notice everything and remember nothing.  

For more than a decade, the Unnamed Nanny worked for some of the richest families in the world. She travelled on private jets, stayed on vast estates and luxury yachts; she saw separate apartments for young children, staff who were expected to disappear, parents who believed there was no problem that money couldn’t solve. She was paid to look after the children and expected to look away from everything else. Until she left.  

The families remain anonymous. So must she.