![]() ![]() Her personality fairly leaps off the page, and her witty, irreverent, brutally honest (and sometimes coarse) observations are entertaining, to say the least. But she’s one of the most engaging heroines I’ve come across in a long time. ![]() Without Bessy, this novel might be your typical Victorian ghost story. Later, Bessy discovers a book that Arabella is writing, called The Observations, and begins to wonder what really happened to the maid before her. Arabella is a strange mistress, who has her maid-of-all-work keep a diary of her day-to-day activities. Set in the 1860s in “Scratchland,” (aka Scotland), the story follows young Bessy Buckley as she obtains employment (honest, this time) with “the missus,” Arabella Reid, at Castle Haivers, which isn’t really a castle at all. ![]() The Observations is only the fourth book I’ve completed this year, but I can already tell that it’s going to be one of my favorites for 2009. ![]()
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