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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... read more

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  • “You might as well plant buttercups on a cow pat”
    Bessy Buckley

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I had reason to leave Glasgow, this would have been about three four years ago, and I had been on the Great Road about five hours when I seen a track to the left and a sign that said "Castle Haivers."

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I. Part One
1. I Find a New Place
2. New Clothes and New People
3. Friday
4. What I Did Not Write
5. The Master Returns
6. I Make a Discovery
II. Part Two
7. A Most Particular Case
8. Depression
9. An Important Dinner
10. I Have an Idea
11. Both Strange and Startling
III. Part Three
12. I Get Another Shock
13. A Trip, a Tea Party and a Mysterious Object
14. Missing Pages
IV. Part Four
15. An Apparition
16. I Get a Fright
17. Ominous News
18. A Startling Revelation
19. I Lose Hope
V. Part Five
20. I Am Made Captive
21. Pandemonium
22. An Unexpected Loss
23. Desolation
VI. Part Six
24. A New Preoccupation

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  1. Jane Harris (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: April 6, 2006
ISBN: 0571223354
Page Count: 432

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