Gillespie And I

Author: Jane Harris

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  • : $9.99 NZD
  • : 9780571238309
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  • : 01 December 2011
  • : 198mm X 126mm X 38mm
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Barcode 9780571238309
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Description

The acclaimed follow-up to The Observations, now in paperback.


 


Back in 1888, the young, art-loving Harriet arrives in Glasgow at the time of the International Exhibition. After a chance encounter she befriends the Gillespie family and soon becomes a fixture in all of their lives. But when tragedy strikes the promise and certainties of this world all too rapidly disintegrate into mystery and deception...

Awards

Shortlisted for Galaxy National Book Awards: Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2011.

Author description

Jane Harris was born in Belfast and brought up in Glasgow. In 2007, she was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Waterstone's Newcomer of the Year and the South Bank Show Times Breakthrough Award. Her debut novel, The Observations, was shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. She lives in London with her husband Tom.