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La Verdad De La Señorita Harriet (2011)

by Jane Harris(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Lumen

review 1: Gillespie and I is the best book I have read so far this year, everything about it was just delightful and amazing to read. It focuses on the relationship between Miss Harriet Baxter and her relationship with the Gillespie family and what happens to her and the Gillespie's after certain tragedies hit the family. What Jane Harris has done with this book is excellent she drops hints throughout the book as to what will happen and what the consequences will be which add to the sense of foreboding that it very prominent. There are two styles of chapters those set in London in the 1930s and the flashback chapters in Glasgow in the late 1800's, each chapter ends on a cliffhanger that just made me want to continue reading and made it very hard to put down. Gillespie and I does hav... moree an air of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher so if you did not enjoy that then this is probably not for you but I think the plot is good that this is better than The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. The characters created are also easily likeable and have different elements to them that each bring something new to the novel. Gillespie and I is a sad read at times due to the traumatic events but is immensely enjoyable and I am only sad that I have now finished it and have to leave their world behind.
review 2: It's hard to write a review of this book without giving away too much. At first it seems to be a fairly average Victorianesque novel with a maybe a whiff of family scandal in the offing. In fact about a quarter of the way in I began to wonder what all the great reviews were about. Then there was a little detail that seemed a bit strange. And another. Before you quite realize it things have taken a definite turn, and it becomes clear this is not the story that you thought you were reading. less

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