For instance, Harriet considers herself a kind and generous person. She then looks back to the spring of 1888, when she first met Gillespie and his family at the International Exhibition in Glasgow.Īt first, this novel reads like something like  - as the story unfolds, the reader notices flaws and quirks that the narrator stays blissfully unaware of.
She has taken it upon herself to write her memoirs, specifically about the period she was acquainted with Ned Gillespie, a forgotten Scottish artist and - according to Harriet, an unfairly neglected genius. Part of the reason for Gillespie's obscurity is that he destroyed most of his work before tragically taking his own life. Harriet describes him as her "dear friend and soul mate," revealing that she was closest to him and knew him better than members of his own family. Harriet Baxter is an elderly spinster living in London in the 1930's.
Gillespie and I is one of those books that I find difficult to talk about because too much information would spoil it. You can just wrap up in a blanket, have a hot drink nearby, and just lose yourself in it. I find something so cozy about reading a chunky historical fiction during the colder months.
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