An intimate, hilarious, and shocking look at how the global one percent exploit others and raise their children to be the next ruling class, by a former nanny to the world’s richest families

The Unnamed Nanny spent a decade working for the English upper classes, Eastern European oligarchs, and one family so rich they didn’t identify with a country (“We’re not into the whole nationality thing”). She worked for a family who had a separate apartment for their two-year-old with her own private nanny. She sometimes worked for families for months before ever laying eyes on the husbands, who usually couldn’t find any time to spend with their children. And she spent years with a girl where the requirements of the job were to participate in the child’s intermittent-fasting diet and to put her through the paces of a daily workout routine. The girl was nine years old.

Amid it all, the Unnamed Nanny traveled on private jets, stayed on luxury yachts, and tutored children for years to get them into the best prep schools in Britain. As a member of the staff, she quickly learned she was expected to stay quiet and disappear, until one family pushed her too far, and she went to the authorities. Now she is determined to expose the moral rot behind these closed mansion doors.

The Unnamed Nanny is an insider’s account of a world most of us will never enter. Riveting and entertaining and full of eye-popping details of excess, it also asks, What happens when people grow up believing that privilege is natural, wealth is virtue, and the rules are for everyone else?