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First published 2006

The Observations

by Jane Harris

Women's Prize 2007 · Shortlist

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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.

Prize history

Women's Prize for Fiction 2007 Shortlist

ISBN 9780143112013 · 9780571275618 · 9780571223350

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