Gillespie and I, Harris, Jane

Автор: Harris Jane
Название: Gillespie and I
ISBN: 0571275168 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571275168
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame she maintains he deserved.

Автор: Harris Jane
Название: The Observations
ISBN: 0571232892 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571232895
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Описание: This work is set in 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. Then a childish prank has drastic consequences which throw into jeopardy all that Bessy has come to hold dear. Caught up in a tangle of madness, ghosts, sex and lies, she is determined to remain devoted to Arabella.

But who is really responsible for what happened to her predecessor Nora? As her past threatens to catch up with her and complicate matters even further, Bessy begins to realise that she has not quite landed on her feet. "The Observations" is a brilliantly original, funny and endlessly intriguing story of one woman's journey from a difficult past into an even more disturbing present.

Автор: Harris Jane
Название: The Observations
ISBN: 0571223362 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571223367
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: Bessy is surely one of the most striking characters in recent fiction: cynical, disruptive, tender and very, very funny.` Independent on SundayShortlisted for the Orange PrizeScotland, 1863.