I had my expectations for this book quelled by a friend of mine, but I was very happy to have them exceeded!
Book of a Thousand Days is the story of Dashti the maid as she follows her lady through imprisonment in a tower, gains her freedom, and then deals with the impacts of the war that has been raging whilst they were locked up.
Dashti is a wonderful narrator, and the story is very well told. It's written in the style of journal entries, and at times you can't help but laugh when Dashti ends one entry with a decision to do something and starts the next with the details of that decision.
I quite highly recommend this book!