The Hireling is a 1957 novel by the British writer L.P.

[1] A widowed aristocrat bonds with the ex-soldier who drives his own car in a chauffeur service.

In 1973 the novel was adapted into a British film of the same title directed by Alan Bridges and starring Robert Shaw and Sarah Miles.

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