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The Observations
de Harris, Jane
- Usado
- as new
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0571223354
- ISBN 13
- 9780571223350
- Librería
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Faber and Faber, 2006. An As New copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. 415 pages. First Edition, First Printing. Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley - the wide-eyed Irish heroine of the story - 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 remains 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 evenfurther, Bessy begins to realise that she has not quite landed on her feet. L. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Goldring Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 008478
- Título
- The Observations
- Autor
- Harris, Jane
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo As New
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- As New
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571223354
- ISBN 13
- 9780571223350
- Editorial
- Faber and Faber
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Palabras clave
- 19TH CENTURY EDINBURGH, HISTORICAL FICTION, BESSY BUCKLEY
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Historical Fiction;
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