| Author: | Jane Harris | ISBN: | 9781440695988 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group | Publication: | June 27, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jane Harris |
| ISBN: | 9781440695988 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication: | June 27, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
