The Observations: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Harris, Jane

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670037737 ISBN 13 : 9780670037735

Editeur : Viking Pr, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Harris Jane

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley - the wide-eyed Irish heroine of The Observations - 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 and her insistence that Bessy keep a journal of her most intimate thoughts. And it seems that Arabella has a few secrets of her own - including her near-obsessive affection for Nora, a former maid who died in mysterious circumstances.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Viking Pr
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0670037737
• ISBN 13: 9780670037735
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 405
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