![]() ![]() Harris proves this is not necessarily the case. Some of the literary prize boards will have you believe that readability and literary novels are mutually exclusive. ![]() We know from early on that tragedy struck the Gillespie family leading to Ned destroying his career, but Harriet wants to set the record straight with regard to her involvement in events. At the time, a spinster of independent means, she arrived in Glasgow to visit the International Exhibition and became a champion of and friend to a young Scottish painter, Ned Gillespie and his young family. Now elderly and residing in London in 1933, she is finally telling her events of what happened in the early 1880s in Glasgow and her relationship with the Gillespie family. The 'I' in the title of Jane Harris's Gillespie and I is Harriet Baxter. Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 Set mostly in Victorian Glasgow, telling one side of tragic events in the life of a young Scottish painter, you will have to decide how reliable the narrator is. Summary: That rare thing - literary fiction that is highly readable. ![]()
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