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The Observations

Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley--a wide-eyed and feisty young Irish girl--takes a job as a maid in a big house outside Edinburgh working for the beautiful Arabella--the "missus." Bessy is intrigued by her new employer, but it seems that the missus has a few secrets of her own, including her near-obsessive affection for Nora, a former maid who died in mysterious circumstances. Yet even when caught up in a tangle of madness, ghosts, sex, and lies, Bessy remains devoted to Arabella. But who is really responsible for what happened to Nora?--From publisher description.

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  • "Observations"@pl
  • "Observations"@it
  • "The observations"@it

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  • "Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley--a wide-eyed and feisty young Irish girl--takes a job as a maid in a big house outside Edinburgh working for the beautiful Arabella--the "missus." Bessy is intrigued by her new employer, but it seems that the missus has a few secrets of her own, including her near-obsessive affection for Nora, a former maid who died in mysterious circumstances. Yet even when caught up in a tangle of madness, ghosts, sex, and lies, Bessy remains devoted to Arabella. But who is really responsible for what happened to Nora?--From publisher description."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "Ecosse, 1863. Fuyant une mère indigne et un passé sordide, Bessy Buckley trouve une place de servante dans un manoir isolé auprès de lady Arabella Reid, jeune femme hypersensible. Les deux femmes esseulées nouent une relation d'amitié aussi tendre que complexe. Dans un style alerte et argotique, Bessy fait le récit de son lourd passé et de ses rapports avec sa maîtresse. Premier roman."
  • "As part of Faber's Secrets and Lies series comes a beguiling novel of deception and deviousness."@en
  • "Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley 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 strange requests."@en
  • "In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy takes a job as a maid. Her "missus" demands Bessy keep a journal of her thoughts in this powerful story of secrets and suspicions, hidden histories, and mysterious disappearances.--Résumé de l'éditeur."
  • "In het Schotland van de tweede helft van de 19e eeuw krijgt een 15-jarig meisje een betrekking bij een vreemd echtpaar van wie ze rare opdrachten krijgt."
  • "In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy takes a job as a maid. Her "missus" demands Bessy keep a journal of her thoughts in this powerful story of secrets and suspicions, hidden histories, and mysterious disappearances."
  • "Keeping a journal to record the increasingly unusual duties requested of her by her beautiful mistress, nineteenth-century Edinburgh scullery maid Bessy wonders about her mistress's secret relationship with a dead former maid."@en
  • "Keeping a journal to record the increasingly unusual duties requested of her by her beautiful mistress, nineteenth-century Edinburgh scullery maid Bessy wonders about her mistress's secret relationship with a dead former maid."

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  • "History"
  • "Roman anglais"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "General fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"

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  • "The Observations"@en
  • "The Observations"
  • "Iagttagelserne : roman"@da
  • "Le osservazioni"
  • "Le osservazioni"@it
  • "De observaties"
  • "Zapažanja"
  • "Observaciones"@es
  • "The observations"
  • "The observations"@en
  • "The observations a novel"
  • "La servante insoumise roman"
  • "The observations : a novel"@en
  • "The observations : a novel"
  • "Obserwacje"@pl
  • "La servante insoumise : roman"
  • "Gözlemler"

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