# The Observations

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- Book: [The Observations](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-harris/the-observations) ([The Observations.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-harris/the-observations.md))
- Authors: [Jane Harris](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-harris)
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- ISBN: 978-01-4311-201-3
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2007-06-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Observations is a hugely assured and darkly funny debut set in nineteenth-century Scotland. Bessy Buckley, the novel's heroine, is a cynical, wide-eyed, and tender fifteen-year-old Irish girl who takes...