The Observations
by Harris, Jane
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j, orange boards, white spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked.
- ISBN 10
- 0571223354
- ISBN 13
- 9780571223350
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC131915
- Title
- The Observations
- Author
- Harris, Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j, orange boards, white spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0571223354
- ISBN 13
- 9780571223350
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Pages
- 415
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, historical fiction, Scotland, Jane Harris, prize
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.69 g
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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