by Jane Harris · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571232895
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«The Observations» is the historical novel by Jane Harris, published by Faber & Faber in paperback, in English.
Scotland, 1863. Bessy Buckley, a young woman fleeing her past, enters service as a maid in a country house. Her mistress, Arabella, gives her increasingly strange tasks, and Bessy soon discovers that nothing is as it seems. Amid secrets, love and friendship, it tells a story full of humour and emotion in Victorian Scotland.
Jane Harris's debut novel, published in 2006 and shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2007.
With a cynical, tender and witty heroine, it is aimed at readers of historical and gothic fiction set in the Victorian era.
Robert J. Harris (Bob) is a Scottish academic and author, particularly of children's fantasies and historical novels, best known for his collaborations with Jane Yolen. He also designed the fantasy board game Talisman and its sequel Mythgardia.
