Gillespie and I - Couverture souple

Harris, Jane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571238300 ISBN 13 : 9780571238309

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2012

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'A chilling tale reminiscent of both The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and Arthur & George.' -- Financial Times

'Nothing is as it seems in this book ... it hooks the reader in with great, demented power.' -- Evening Standard

'Compelling, suspenseful and highly enjoyable.' -- The Times

'A story that holds you in its grip and makes you skip ahead but circle back again for more of the same - literary crack cocaine.' -- Scotland on Sunday

'Harris has pulled off that only too rare double whammy - a Booker-worthy novel that I want to read again.' -- Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times

'An absolute belter.' --Bidisha

'A fine storyteller.' -- Guardian

'Gripping ... the pace of the narrative is tantalisingly controlled.' --Times Literary Supplement

'Evocative ... will you plunge you straight back into 19th-century Glasgow ... it's perfect for a long winter evening.' -- Erica Wagner, Books of the Year, The Times

'The novel I enjoyed the most this year ... combines an involving first-person narrative voice, a crime mystery and an alert evocation of the late Victorian Glasgow of those celebrated painters, the Glasgow Boys. It s a sustained and subtle page-turner. -- Robert Crawford, Books of the Year, The Herald

'Quite aside from the riveting plot, the writing itself is pure pleasure.' --Daily Mail

'Harris plays with the reader's expectations brilliantly.' --Independent

'Quite aside from the riveting plot, the writing itself is pure pleasure.' --Daily Mail

'Harris plays with the reader's expectations brilliantly.' --Independent

Quatrième de couverture :

From the award-winning author of The Observations comes a beautifully conjured and wickedly sharp tale of art and deception in nineteenth-century Scotland.

As she sits in her Bloomsbury home with her two pet birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter recounts the story of her friendship with Ned Gillespie—a talented artist whose life came to a tragic end before he ever achieved the fame and recognition that Harriet maintains he deserved.

In 1888, young Harriet arrives in Glasgow during the International Exhibition. After a chance encounter with Ned, she befriends the Gillespie family and soon becomes a fixture in their lives. But when tragedy strikes, culminating in a notorious criminal trial, the certainty of Harriet’s new world rapidly spirals into suspicion and despair.

Infused with rich period detail, shot through with sly humor, and featuring a memorable cast of characters, Gillespie and I is an absorbing, atmospheric tale of one young woman’s friendship with a volatile artist and her place in the controversy that consumes him—a tour de force from one of the emerging names of modern fiction.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0571238300
• ISBN 13: 9780571238309
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 624