Jane Harris

A deliriously captivating tale of sex, ghosts, lies, and mysteries. (Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love) By turns funny and sad, but always true to the ear. And the sprightly, profane Bessy is a joy. (Entertainment Weekly) It's a rare feeling to be swept up by a book in the childhood way, but when it happens, it's extraordinary: deeply familiar and strangely unsettling. (London Review of Books) The Observations combines the best qualities of literary fiction with page-turning accessibility. (The Observer, London)

Featuring a memorable cast of characters, shot through with wicked humour, and infused with atmosphere and period detail, 'Gillespie and I' is a triumphant return from one of rhe major new voices in modern fiction.Su primera novela era "The Observations".

As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame she maintains he deserved. Back in 1888, the young, art-loving Harriet arrives in Glasgow at the time of the International Exhibition. After a chance encounter she befriends the Gillespie family and soon becomes a fixture in all of their lives. But when tragedy strikes - leading to a notorious criminal trial - the promise and certainties of this world all too rapidly disintegrate into mystery and deception...

This work is set in 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. 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 is determined to remain 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 even further, Bessy begins to realise that she has not quite landed on her feet. "The Observations" is a brilliantly original, funny and endlessly intriguing story of one woman's journey from a difficult past into an even more disturbing present.

Nada es a simple vista lo que parece y mucho menos en esta intrigante novela de corte clásico.«Os parecerá extraño que sea yo la primera en hablar de Ned Gillespie, pero ¿quién sino yo iba a hacerlo?

?Bessy Buckley, la heroína de Observaciones, está a la altura de Moll Flanders, de Daniel Defoe.? The Times?Harris ha creado un personaje con tanta fuerza que capta la atención del lector de la primera a la ultima pagina.? The Observer?Una gran primera novela de corte victoriano, llena de locura e injusticias sociales, para un lector moderno.? The Book MagazineEscocia,1863. En un intento de escapar de su pasado un tanto dudoso en Glasgow, Bessy acepta un trabajo en una gran casa a las afueras de Edimburgo a las ordenes de la señora Arabella. Bessy siente gran curiosidad por su nueva señora y por la insistencia de esta en que anote en un diario cada uno de sus pensamientos mas intimos. Parece que Abarella tambien tiene secretos propios, como su afecto casi obsesivo hacia Nora, la antecesora de Bessy, quien murio en misteriosas circunstancias. El lector de Observaciones no tardara en verse atrapado por la inteligente intriga de esta novela historica. A traves de la voz de la inolvidable Bessy y de una narracion llega de guiños, Observaciones muestra los aspectos mas sordidos de la sociedad victoriana y ofrece un certero analisis sobre las relaciones de afecto y poder. Jane Harris nacio en 1962 en Belfast. Ha publicado algunas narraciones breves por las que obtuvo el Writer?s Aw