Book description
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.
Jane Harris was born in Belfast and brought up in Glasgow. Her
short stories have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and she
has also written several award-winng short films. In 2000 she received
a Writer's Award from the Arts Council of England. She lives in London
with her husband Tom.
