{"product_id":"the-observations-9780143112013","title":"The Observations","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jane Harris\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Observations\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408448282775,"sku":"9780143112013","price":1901.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143112013.webp?v=1767309915","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-observations-9780143112013","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}