![]() ![]() Jealousies, slights, outright confrontations and misunderstandings pervade the relationship between Arabella and Bessy while they shape the household concoctions of both women. The friendship between Arabella and her young maid carries a whiff of sexual infatuation and the mix of chemistries that can only be awakened when women become close. But there’s more than meets the eye in every way for readers of The Observations. ![]() ![]() Arabella’s literary secrets and the unknowns surrounding them form the top layer of the novel. She enlists and discovers that her employer, Arabella, is a writer- of sorts. Beneath the skillful use of clever, vernacular dialogue and mysterious goings on are shades of complex relationships and a twinship of longing and belonging.īessy Buckley is a worldly fifteen year old, running from a sickly unsavory family member who drives her from 19th century Glasgow into the countryside where she happens upon a run down mansion with a mistress in want of a lady’s maid. The Observations by Jane Harris is many things, funny, gripping, tender and an overall delight. ![]()
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