The Observations
- Authors
- Harris, Jane
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Tags
- women domestics - scotland , scotland , women domestics , romance , irish - scotland , occult & supernatural , domestic fiction , general , literary , mystery , fiction , historical , scotland - social life and customs - 19th century , women household employees , irish
- ISBN
- 9780143112013
- Date
- 2006-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.45 MB
- Lang
- en
*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.