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"The Observations" is a hugely assured and darkly funny debut set in nineteenth-century Scotland. Bessy Buckley, the novel's heroine, is a cynical, wide-eyed, and tender fifteen-year-old Irish girl who takes a job as a maid in a once-grand country house outside Edinburgh, where all is not as it seems. Asked by her employer, the beautiful Arabella, to keep a journal of her most intimate thoughts, Bessy soon makes a troubling discovery and realizes that she has fled her difficult past only to arrive in an even more disturbing present.
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The Observations, Jane Harris
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- Released
- 2006
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- Title
- The Observations
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jane Harris
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Ltd.
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN10
- 057123108X
- ISBN13
- 9780571231089
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, Love, Science, Horror, Scotland, Gothic, Betrayal, Victorian Era, Gothic Horror, Dread, Fear, Experiments (Science), Industrialization, Manor
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- "The Observations" is a hugely assured and darkly funny debut set in nineteenth-century Scotland. Bessy Buckley, the novel's heroine, is a cynical, wide-eyed, and tender fifteen-year-old Irish girl who takes a job as a maid in a once-grand country house outside Edinburgh, where all is not as it seems. Asked by her employer, the beautiful Arabella, to keep a journal of her most intimate thoughts, Bessy soon makes a troubling discovery and realizes that she has fled her difficult past only to arrive in an even more disturbing present.