![]() She also subjects Bessy to odd experiments, but Bessy goes along with them because she is flattered by the attention and quickly grows attached to her mistress. The Observations is set in Scotland in 1863 and narrated by the lively, sharp Bessy Buckley, who leaves her murky past in Glasgow and stumbles into a job as a maid at Castle Haivers, a large house outside Edinburgh.Īrabella, her mistress, encourages Bessy to write her thoughts and experiences in a journal. ![]() It was Waterstones book of the month and Faber & Faber's lead debut fiction title for spring 2006 (with its biggest ever initial print run for a first book). ![]() The Observations, the debut novel by British author Jane Harris, was published in 2006 and shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2007. ![]()
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