![]() Wait up, you say (or at least, the reviewer in The Guardian says). Harris takes obvious delight in setting herself the task of researching a time and place so thoroughly that she feels able to inhabit the first-person voices of people whose fictional lives are, on the face of it, far removed from her own lived experience: a 15 year old ladies’ maid in 1863, a deranged English spinster in 18, a pubescent male black slave on Grenada and Martinique in 1765. Her second novel, Gillespie and I (2011), is similarly set in Glasgow, where Belfast-born Harris grew up and attended university. Her first novel, The Observations (2006) was a finalist in Britain’s Orange Prize for Fiction 2007. Jane Harris is a British author and screenwriter who is the same age as I am and if I were the envious kind I suppose I should hate her. ![]()
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