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"The Observations is a deliriously captivating tale of sex, ghosts, lies, and mysteries. But that’s not the good part; the good part is our narrator Betsy, a fifteen-year-old Irish made living in Scotland with the freshest, sharpest, naughtiest, and most charming voice you’re apt to encounter in literature in a good long time. I adored her and couldn’t put her story down." – Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
"I wept at the end of this brilliant first novel because I was so moved at the way Jane Harris sustains the vivacity, eloquence and pathos of her tale." – Sunday Herald (Glasgow)
"Harris is already being spoken about in the same breath as Sarah Waters and Michel Faber. In Betsy, she has created a bawdy, picaresque character who holds our attention for more than 400 pages. The Observations combines the best qualities of literary fiction with page-turning accessibility." – The Observer (London)
"Harris's voice is an original one, and her rollicking yet delicate narrative pitch sets the book apart... This is a true one-off." (Joanna Briscoe Guardian)
For Gillespie and I:
"Harris has pulled off that only too rare double whammy - a Booker-worthy novel that I want to read again."-- Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times
"Gripping ... the pace of the narrative is tantalisingly controlled." --Times Literary Supplement
"Evocative ... will you plunge you straight back into 19th-century Glasgow ... it's perfect for a long winter evening." -- Erica Wagner, Books of the Year, The Times
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Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The stunning return from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of The Observations and Gillespie and I'Pitches you headfirst into this outstanding, heartbreaking story of siblings, slavery and the savagery of the colonial past.' SUNDAY EXPRESS'Harris builds a lush sense of place, and the pace and tension of a rip-roaring adventure here, with derring-do and double-crossing.' THE TIMES'Through masterful detail, Harris shows the dehumanisation of the brothers and their fellow slaves . . . Beautifully cadenced.' IRISH TIMESMartinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master, Father Cleophas, with a mission. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and smuggle back the 42 slaves claimed by English invaders at the hospital plantation in Fort Royal. While Lucien, barely in his teens, sees the trip as a great adventure, the older and worldlier Emile has no illusions about the dangers they will face. But with no choice other than to obey Cleophas - and sensing the possibility, however remote, of finding his first love Celeste - he sets out with his brother on this 'reckless venture'.With great characters, a superb narrative set up, and language that is witty and thrillingly alive, Sugar Moneyis a novel to treasure. 400 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9780571336937
Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The stunning return from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of The Observations and Gillespie and I'Pitches you headfirst into this outstanding, heartbreaking story of siblings, slavery and the savagery of the colonial past.' SUNDAY EXPRESS'Harris builds a lush sense of place, and the pace and tension of a rip-roaring adventure here, with derring-do and double-crossing.' THE TIMES'Through masterful detail, Harris shows the dehumanisation of the brothers and their fellow slaves . . . Beautifully cadenced.' IRISH TIMESMartinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master, Father Cleophas, with a mission. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and smuggle back the 42 slaves claimed by English invaders at the hospital plantation in Fort Royal. While Lucien, barely in his teens, sees the trip as a great adventure, the older and worldlier Emile has no illusions about the dangers they will face. But with no choice other than to obey Cleophas - and sensing the possibility, however remote, of finding his first love Celeste - he sets out with his brother on this 'reckless venture'.With great characters, a superb narrative set up, and language that is witty and thrillingly alive, Sugar Moneyis a novel to treasure. 400 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9780571336937
Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The stunning return from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of The Observations and Gillespie and I'Pitches you headfirst into this outstanding, heartbreaking story of siblings, slavery and the savagery of the colonial past.' SUNDAY EXPRESS'Harris builds a lush sense of place, and the pace and tension of a rip-roaring adventure here, with derring-do and double-crossing.' THE TIMES'Through masterful detail, Harris shows the dehumanisation of the brothers and their fellow slaves . . . Beautifully cadenced.' IRISH TIMESMartinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master, Father Cleophas, with a mission. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and smuggle back the 42 slaves claimed by English invaders at the hospital plantation in Fort Royal. While Lucien, barely in his teens, sees the trip as a great adventure, the older and worldlier Emile has no illusions about the dangers they will face. But with no choice other than to obey Cleophas - and sensing the possibility, however remote, of finding his first love Celeste - he sets out with his brother on this 'reckless venture'.With great characters, a superb narrative set up, and language that is witty and thrillingly alive, Sugar Moneyis a novel to treasure. Seller Inventory # 9780571336937
Book Description Condition: New. Based on a remarkable and little-known true story, Jane Harris s third novel is both a heart-breaking trip into our troubled colonial past, and a stunning act of literary ventriloquism.The stunning return from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of The . Seller Inventory # 144786867