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Gillespie and I

ID 287396
Slug gillespie-and-i
Contributors
Author : Jane Harris
Annotation
Description 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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Subjects
301 Literaire roman, novelle NUR
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Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 608
Duration
Publication date first 2011-12-21
Publication date latest 2011-12-21
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  • ISBN: 9780571238293 (BC)

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