Gillespie and I - Softcover

Harris, Jane

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571238270 ISBN 13: 9780571238279

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2011

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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 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 - leading to a notorious criminal trial - the promise and certainties of this world all too rapidly disintegrate into mystery and deception...

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Review:

`In Gillespie and I, Harris has pulled off the only too rare double whammy - a Booker-worthy novel that I want to read again.' --The Sunday Times

`Harris writes with a gorgeous delicacy and wit' --The Literary Review

Book Description:

Gillespie and I is the eagerly awaited follow up to Jane Harris's hugely acclaimed debut, The Observations.

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