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Jayne Harris is a globally recognised, award winning Paranormal Researcher, Psychologist and Historian. She is a Presenter on TV series Help! My House is Haunted, RTS Award winning spin-off series Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted and Paranormal Expert with Unexplained Caught on Camera.
Jane Harris was born in Belfast and studied English Literature and Drama at Glasgow University. She has written three novels, The Observations, Gillespie and I and Sugar Money, and won several awards for her short film scripts.
Jane Harris is a magnificent writer, and she grabs the Gothic tradition with fierceness. The Orange Prize Project (Read full review) A beautifully crafted piece of historical fiction which wrongfoots you throughout. Me And My Big Mouth . We already have proof that Jane Harris can write fresh and authoritative historical fiction. Check.
- Is The Observations Autobiographical in Any Way?
- How Did You Come Up with The Voice of The Narrator, Bessy?
- Where Is Castle Haivers situated?
- Did You Invent The Newspaper Clipping in Chapter 8 of The observations?
- Why Did The Observations Take So Long to Write?
Not much in the novel is drawn from autobiographical sources. However, I don’t think I could have written this novel without having worked as a kitchen maid, chambermaid and maid-of-all-work in France while I was travelling/figuring out what to do with my life.
Bessy’s voice is a mixture of several voices, all Irish. There is a bit of me in there, of course. But I mainly based her on three Irish women of my acquaintance: my mother, my aunt and an old friend whom I don’t see much any more. All three women have (or had) a great sense of humour and incredibly inventive use of language. None of them were educ...
Castle Haivers is not set in any exact real-life location but the main part of the novel is meant to take place somewhere in the vicinity of Armadale and Bathgate, just off what used to be the old Glasgow to Edinburgh Road.
The newspaper clipping that appears in Chapter 8 (concerning a missing person, Agnes Faulds or Crawford) is only slightly adapted from one that appears in an edition of The Glasgow Herald in the early 1860s. Such listings appeared on the front page in those days. Old editions of The Herald can be consulted in microfiche format at The Mitchell Libra...
For one thing, I’m a very slow writer. I spend a long time in research not only before but during and even after the writing process. As for The Observationsin particular, I ended up stashing it in a box, unfinished, because I wasn’t sure where the story was heading. Meanwhile, I got side-tracked into screen-writing for several years and had to ear...
Jun 27, 2020 · Jane Harris, the 1980s legend, is back for good in the Australian soap and brings her estranged daughter Nicolette with her. Find out more about their story, Jane's marriage to Des and her past in the UK.
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Jane Harris. Ireland (b.1961) Jane Harris is a British writer of fiction and screenplays. Her most recent work is the critically acclaimed Gillespie and I. Her first novel, The Observations, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2007. Waterstone's, the UK bookstore chain, has chosen her as one of its 25 Authors for the Future.
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For 30 years Jane Harris explored, through a set of self-imposed rules, the perceptual qualities of the ellipse. In her hands, this shape lent itself to elasticity and allusion and took on multiple identities – ornate, spartan, and often, through her beautiful handling of paint, visually mischievous. Carefully painted using oils, each of the ...
