Description

In the prize-winning writer of The Findings comes a wickedly pointed and superbly conjured story of fraud and artwork in nineteenth-century Scotland. As she sits in her Bloomsbury house with her two pet birds for business, aged Harriet Baxter recounts the story of her friendship with Ned Gillespie—a gifted performer whose life found a heartbreaking conclusion before he actually accomplished the reputation and reputation that Harriet keeps he earned. In 1888, young Harriet comes in Glasgow throughout the International Event. Following a chance encounter with Ned, she befriends the Gillespie family and quickly becomes a fixture within their lives.