The Observations
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: January 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780571223350
Subjects: Modern fiction; General; Fiction - General
First sentence: 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'.
Description: 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.