Gillespie and I
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780571275168 (0571275168)
Publish date: May 1st 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
19th Century,
Crime,
Scotland
Gillespie And I (first published in 2011) is the second novel by Jane Harris. Her acclaimed debut novel , The Observations (first pub. 2006) was also dramatised for Radio 4 as a ten-part serial by dramatist Chris Dolan and producer/director Bruce Young in 2007. Producer/director: Bruce Young1/10. Vi...
Following the resounding success of my Locus Quest, I faced a dilemma: which reading list to follow it up with? Variety is the spice of life, so I’ve decided to diversify and pursue six different lists simultaneously. This book falls into my GIFTS AND GUILTY list.Regardless of how many books are alr...
This book, I loved it.The second genre it's listed in is "mystery." I have a sort of hit-and-miss relationship with the mystery genre; I've loved a couple and been bored by a couple (there was one I read years ago that was awfully, dreadfully boring--and I am a very difficult person to bore). The la...
I loved this book. Jane Harris takes us on a journey back to the Glasgow Exhibition in the late 19th century, where we meet Miss Harriet Baxter and the Gillespie family. The pages kept on flying by and I found myself fascinated by the story. Harriet cleaves herself to the Gillespies and has an espec...
As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame she maintains he deserved.Back in 1888, the young, art-loving...
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