![]() Just as this begins to pall we have the tragedy of the kidnap of the Gillespie daughter. ![]() The early part of the book is a vivid description of ordinary life in a lower middle class family of the time. One of the Gillespie daughters is kidnapped and murdered, and at the subsequent trial much of what we have understood from Harriet’s memoir is turned on its head.Jane Harris has done lots of research and evokes late Victorian Glasgow and its people extremely well. She meets the Gillespie family and becomes very close to them. The book opens with an elderly Harriet Baxter in her Bloomsbury apartment in 1933 deciding to relate the story of her acquaintance with Ned Gillespie, a Glasgow artist who never quite fulfilled his potential.Harriet moves to Glasgow in 1888 after the death of her aunt to visit the International Exhibition. ![]()
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