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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.
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Praise for THE OBSERVATIONS by Jane Harris
"Rollicking and engaging. A confident, fresh, roguishly charming first work."
-Kirkus (starred review)
"It's nearly impossible to find period pieces like this, by turns funny and sad, but always true to the ear."
-Entertainment Weekly
"Sharp, funny and tender-hearted, Bessy is an accomplishment."
-Publishers Weekly
"Bessy's unique, witty voice distinguishes this boisterous novel."
-Booklist
"Bessy's is the freshest voice to come along in a long time...[The Observations] is utterly unputdownable."
-Bookreporter.com
"Bessy... [has] the freshest, sharpest, naughtiest...voice you're apt to encounter in literature...I adored her."
-Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
"Bessy Buckley can hold her head up with Moll Flanders and Becky Sharp as a living, breathing mortal."
-The Times (London)
"Unique, not least in the ebullience of the language... a superbly uncorseted evocation of life in Victorian Scotland."
-Sunday Herald (Glasgow)
"There are enough twists... to keep a cynical adult reader up half the night .... [Bessy is] impossible not to like."
-London Review of Books
"An astonishing imaginative feat, brilliantly written."
-Scotland on Sunday
"This intriguing, ghostly read will have you hooked from page one. Fantastic."
-Company Magazine (UK)
"Harris's skilful unravelling of her labyrinthine plot is a joy that will keep you reading well into the small hours."
-Easy Living Magazine (UK)
"A breath of fresh air - witty, bawdy, [and] tantalizing. The author undoubtedly has a wicked sense of humor."
-NewBooksMag (UK)
About the Author
Jane Harris's short stories have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines, and she has written several award-winning short films. In 2000, she received a Writer's Award from the Arts Council of England.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0143112015
- ISBN 13 9780143112013
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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