Author(s): Jane Harris
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 416
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Date Published: 2007-08-01
Dimensions: 134.62 x 213.36 x 25.4mm
Publication City/Country: New York, NY, United States
Edition: Reprint
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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.