The Observations
by Harris, Jane
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0571223354
- ISBN 13
- 9780571223350
- Seller
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About This Item
Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley takes a job as a maid in a big house outside Edinburgh working for the beautiful Arabella. Bessy is intrigued by her new employer, but puzzled by her increasingly strange requests.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Eureka Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 286662
- Title
- The Observations
- Author
- Harris, Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571223354
- ISBN 13
- 9780571223350
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
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