Always and Forever, chapter 3

Great-Aunt Thisbe assures Amabel that are plenty of museum jobs open in York, and that all that's needed to get one is "intelligence, the Queen's English and a pleasant voice and appearance" (p. 63). It seems unlkely to me that no one else wants to be a curator or museum guide; my SO was surprised for another reason: "They speak the Queen's English in York?"
Oliver goes to look for Amabel at her old home, and her mother shows her true Ungrateful Parent colors by telling Oliver, a stranger, that "The silly girl didn't like the idea of them [the dog and cat] being put down - left us in the lurch too" by not helping Keith with the gardening business (p. 68). He decides to drive up to York to see Amabel, not enquiring too deeply into his motives for so doing (though even a careless reader would suss them out, of course). He sees Amabel a few times, and hears about her wish to get a job. The catty Miriam unexpectedly comes to the rescue, gossiping about her friend in York who owns a shop, but who is impractical and needs an assistant. The chapter ends there, but one can guess what will happen in chapter 4.
By the way, Amabel's wish to get a job, but apparent cluelessness about the process, makes this book not only an ungrateful family story, but also a helpless woman story.